In message <[email protected]>, "S. Moonesamy" <[email protected] wrote:
>There is a request form at ><https://www.afrinic.net/ast/afrinic-bulk-whois-request-form-2020.pdf> >for 2020. I suggest filling in the new version of the request form >and sending it to the [email protected] email address. Was this intended as a bad joke? I already did this!! I already filed out the form and send it back in to AFRINIC and received an acknowledgement that it was received, *and* I was then given a special password to access what I had hoped would be a full and *UNREDACTED* copy of the entire AFRINIC WHOIS data base. I did all this even before the pandemic began! After all of that fooling around, I was shocked, amazed, and angered when, at the end of the whole process, the only thing that I could actually get after all of this jumping through hoops was the exact same *redacted* copy of the AFRINIC WHOIS data base that I could already get even *before* I went through all of this bureaucratic nonsense, which is the same *redacted* copy of the data base that any fool can download, via FTP, from ftp.afrinic.net any day of the week. When I complained that I was still not getting the promised *unredacted* version of the WHOIS data base, both Madhvi and Eddy just told me that what I was given was all that was avaialble, and then basically just ignored me after that. Why did I have to fill out a form, send it back, and go through all of this silliness, only to end up with the exact same (redacted) data that I and everyone else on planet earth could already get, even before all of this BS?? I guess that the joke is on me for being stupid enough to believe that AFRINIC would at least be suffuciently competent and functional to *not* just create a whole convoluted bureaucratic mechanism just to give people absolutely nothing above and beyond what they already had or could already get. I say again, I have been stonewalled and I am *still* being stonealled. I can't get even *current* unredacted bulk WHOIS records, let alone any of the vital *historical* records. Why? I am asking you, Mr. Chairman, to PLEASE get this nonsense sorted out ON YOUR END. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
