North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Port 43 Whois Announcement
This isn't nonsense. Its a necessary part of having multiple registrars. This whois is used to avoid namespace collisions between registrars, as well as find the appropriate registrar for a domain. My question (should just test I suppose) is if the rwhois client will automatically query the delegated whois server for the rest of the information. Now that might be useful... --Dean Around 03:40 PM 11/16/1999 -0500, rumor has it that William Allen Simpson said: > >What nonsense is this? > >The registrant and contact information should be in the same >records as the name servers. After all, that's why we called >it "whois", not something else. We want the "who" part, so that >we can contact them! > >Please quote the exact language in the MoU that describes removing >the "who" from whois? > >"Newell, Tom" wrote: >> >> An FYI of an operational nature....... >> >> --Tom >> Director of gTLD Programs >> NSI Registry >> >> ########################################## >> >> Redirecting Port 43 Whois >> >> The following change is being made to comply with the recently >> negotiated and signed agreements between the U.S. Department of >> Commerce, ICANN, and NSI. >> >> Effective December 1, 1999 Network Solutions will be redirecting >> port 43 (rs.internic.net) Whois from the NSI Registrar Whois to >> the NSI Registry Whois. The NSI Registry Whois can currently be >> found at whois.nsiregistry.net. After this occurs, port 43 Whois >> will show the following information: domain name, registrar, Whois >> server, registrar referral URL and the names of the name servers >> associated with the domain. To obtain registrant and domain name >> contact information, users will need to refer to the Whois service >> provided by the registrar for the domain name. >> >> Send questions or comments to [email protected] > >-- > >[email protected] > Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc [email protected] LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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