At 5:06 PM +0100 9/20/00, Bruno Carlos wrote:
>Here comes a weird question to the group.
>A client of mine asked me if I knew WHO WAS the registar of a particular
>domain before him.
>Is there any way of knowing who is the previous owner of a domain.
>Is there any "whowas" system around? (don't laugh)
No, I don't think any such service (currently) exists.
As domains get older/re-used, it might be a really good idea though,
and also to allow updating, so if say, some day I give up
megacity.org (not bloody likely), it might read like:
$ whowas megacity.org
Registrant:
Derek Balling
{address}
Domain Name: MEGACITY.ORG
Administrative Contact:
Balling, Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{address}
Technical Contact:
Balling, Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{address}
Billing Contact:
Balling, Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{address}
Record Created on 16-Jul-1996.
Record Expired on 16-Jul-2006.
Record Returned to Pool 16-Aug-2006.
Domain servers in listed order were:
NS1.MEGACITY.ORG 63.201.65.218
NS1.PYROTECHNICS.COM 207.7.10.2
NS2.PYROTECHNICS.COM 207.7.10.3
New Contact Info (if available):
Derek Balling
1 His Retirement Home
Cayman Islands
+123-1-123-1234-12312
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
... you could also have, if it expires many times, something like
$ whowas spamhaven.com
[Returned multiple listings, specify using unique identifier]
SPAMHAVEN.COM 01-Jul-1995 - 30-Jun-1996 SPAMHAVEN.COM-1
SPAMHAVEN.COM 06-Aug-1996 - 05-Aug-1998 SPAMHAVEN.COM-2
SPAMHAVEN.COM 02-Nov-1998 - 01-Nov-1999 SPAMHAVEN.COM-3
which would enable you to do historical lookups. In a REAL ideal
world, the registrar would, any time the owner-info is changed,
create a whowas record for the domain and instead of "Record
Expired/Returned to Pool", it might say something like:
Owner Contact Changed on 15-Jul-1998
I wonder if there's an RFC in the making here....
D
