Re: Port 43 Whois Announcement

[Dean Anderson <dean () av8 com>]

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 whois () nsiregistry net.
>
> -- 
>
> WSimpson () UMich edu
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