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Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
From: Andy Walden <andy () enigma mtco com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:55:07 -0500 (CDT)
Yes. Thats not the intent of the whois database in my opinion. Marketing and general greed causes the most problems on the Internet and generates the most instances of someone trying to exploit something for the almighty dollar.for, or rarely the admin contact), but for others it is the company name. What makes their use "WRONG" and mine "RIGHT"?
Your not doing it for profit's sake, en mass, without consideration for resources. You manually do a whois when you need a piece of information about a domain that probably has to do with some technical issue. A marketing leech would just find a tech guy to write him a program that would pummel the database so he could use that information to make himself a profit. That wasn't the intention of the database. What about querying other database's for marketing information. Such as public court documents (i'm not sure what the intended market would be), but thats just not the intended use of the information provided. People exploiting the situation. Yeah, I know welcome to the real world and such...just stating.. -andy
Current thread:
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois, (continued)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Michael L. Barrow (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Jon Zeeff (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Derek Balling (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Andy Walden (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Michael L. Barrow (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Patrick Greenwell (Sep 02)
- Related to the flaky record info. Andy Walden (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Michael L. Barrow (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dan Watts (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois bmanning (Sep 02)
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- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Derek Balling (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Andy Walden (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Bill Becker (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Patrick Greenwell (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dean Robb (Sep 04)
- RE: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)