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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: more Internic nightmare
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 04:03 PM 3/23/99 -0800, Randy Bush wrote: > > > >> Randy we've been there - done that - the only answer is PREPAY. > > > >that's one approach to the cybersquatter issue. like all solutions, it has > >it's good and bad points. but i meets my needs, so what the heck. > > > >but this does not address the miner/spammer issues. > > Actually it would if you also restrict whois to tech contacts. It would > only take a slight modification for the whois client to read and send the > uuid of the account doing the requesting. The whois server could then reply > or deny, based on that information. The fact that one then has to have a > domain in order to use the whois database, plus the pre-pay requirement, > should slow them down a bit. This would only work using a local whois client. Web and telnet-based whois would break due to their anonymity. OTOH, a limited response might be implemented for those. Or not.... It still sounds like a lot of work for the implementors who seem to have their hands full already. -ls- > > Yes, this can be circumvented, but it would cost a lot more than the $70 > for a domain registration. In addition, the whois server would know exactly > who is mining the data and would be able to track them, even if they spread > it out over months. > ___________________________________________________ > Roeland M.J. Meyer - > e-mail: mailto:[email protected] > Internet phone: hawk.lvrmr.mhsc.com > Personal web pages: http://staff.mhsc.com/~rmeyer > Company web-site: http://www.mhsc.com > ___________________________________________________ > KISS ... gotta love it! > >
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