North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: .ORG Registrar ID List (was: Stupid .org registry code change)
Bruce Beckwith wrote: You should deal with a registrar for this information, since that is oneRight, but in a case where my client inherited a domain from their predecessor, and has no idea who their registrar is, I seem to be in a catch-22.... This was my purpose in issuing a whois query to begin with- to learn which registrar they need to contact to make DNS authority changes. OTOH, if you are suggesting that I should contact *my* registrar of choice to obtain this information... this seems more than a little ridiculous (to me at least, and I suspect OpenSRS is not going to appreciate getting a new support ticket every time I want to do a whois to figure out what other registrar has a domain that my client doesn't even intend to transfer to them). Why should I {e-mail|call} to get what used to be available with a simple whois query? What have we gained by making this process even more complicated? I have no beef with the use of Registrar IDs, I'm sure there are benefits to using them. But I do think that they are a poor substitute for what used to be human-readable information. If you are interested in the cross-reference list, please seeThanks, but again this seems unnecessarily complicated. Why can't your whois server do this for me as .com/.net are, and .org used to be? I.E. $ whois rockynet.com Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: ROCKYNET.COM Registrar: TUCOWS, INC. <- This is all I really need Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net <- but this is helpful too Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org <- this is icing on the cake :) At the very least, I think it's only reasonable for the pir.org whois server to provide some basic help text on where to get more information, i.e. as Tim Wilde pointed out: For more information do a 'whois -h whois.pir.org "registrar id r11-lror"' If I knew a bit more C, I'd hack my copy of whois to do this for me automagically. For now I guess I'll live with having to do two whois queries to get the information I need (I'm stubborn and would rather not use the web-based whois, since I'm already in the shell for the corresponding digs and named configuration- that's what I liked about whois, it was a nice general purpose tool that could tell me certain things about any domain with one simple query). Mike
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