This link helps explain the situation :
http://www.opensrs.org/whois/newwhois.shtml
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Bruno Carlos wrote:
> I know this as probably been brought up some other time but when you list a
> domain in Network Solutions that has been registered in openSRS it gives:
>
> Connection refused: invalid ip address...
> Domain not found in remote registrar whois....
>
> and then it gives no information about the contacts of the domain, it just
> says the domain was registred through Tucows.
>
> My clients sometimes complain because this leads them in error and they
> think the domain is not registered to them but instead to "some company"
> named Tucows or OpenSRS.
> Some clients don't know how to go to the original registrar to check that
> they are in fact the owners of the domain.
>
> Is there any fix on this? or from now on we'll no longer see that info in
> NSI whois lookup.
>
> Bruno Carlos
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