In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>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.
Whatever, the InterNIC they created was. Still, it's moot.
For five years, they amassed a database under an exclusive government
contract, that should be the property of the government, not NSI.
>> 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.
% whois -h whois.networksolutions.com att.net
The Data in Network Solutions' WHOIS database is provided by Network
...
purposes and that, under no circumstances will you use this Data to:
...
(spam); or (2) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes
that apply to Network Solutions (or its systems). Network Solutions
So, how does one harvest the data without a high volume, automated,
electronic process? With a low-volume, manual, biological process?
-Cengiz
