On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Domain Registration Role Account wrote:
> 2) Whois. For years and years, Network Solutions, as a non-profit,
> collected contact information for thousands and thousands of domains
> in the whois database.
Network Solutions was never a non-profit.
> Now as a commercial entity, they say that
> database is proprietary (semi-public ?) information that ONLY THEY
> can use for marketing purposes. Others are prohibited from harvesting
> the data.
Untrue.
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Patrick Greenwell
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