Back in the old days you were given a NIC handle and you could do lookups on that NIC handle. It was pretty a pretty handy tool. Back then when all the changes were done via the email forms those NIC handles made it real easy.
For instance mine was NM1635 I think. You could do a WHOIS on that and it would return domains that had that handle listed as one of the contacts. This was about 9-10 years ago, when they allowed the registrars to compete, that changed everything. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Vernon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 1:18 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: WHOIS question > > AFAIK, InterNIC only cover .aero, .arpa, .biz, .com, .coop, .edu, .info, > ..int, .museum, .net, and .org and even then, the .com and .net details > are > from Verisign. Any country code based TLD data such as .uk or .us to name > but two is held by the relevant group.. For instance .uk is managed by > Nominet in the UK. > > Also again, AFAIK the Whois search only allows domains, registrars and > nameservers to be used as search criteria, not *Registrant* details. > Certainly, the .uk management allows you to add but withhold from public > view all address details of the registrant, only showing technical and > billing details where necessary to protect against attempted domain > transfer > scams like the DRoA where the registrants have been contacted by a third > party (DRoA) to "renew" their domain or "lose it" when in actual fact, > they > (DRoA) are not the registrar in the first place. > > UK Trading standards has had the DRoA over their marketing practices many > times... > > Paul > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase Homesite Plus with Dreamweaver from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=55 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:179356 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
