Additionally, if the whois service (crsNIC or the "losing" registrar) is
down, we have administrators who manually can grab the addresses when the
whois service is restored at the offending party.
And if we're not going to rely on whois - how do you propose we gain proof
of ownership to approve the transfer? The onus is on us as 'gaining'
registrar to provide such proofs if ever there was an inquiry...
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of erol
> Sent: April 20, 2001 7:21 AM
> To: Jeff K.V. Bhavnanie
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Transfer into SRS and whois.
>
>
> Its entirely automated.
> And using WHOIS seems to be the only ( somewhat ) efficient way to get
> transfers done, unless you want the NSI and register.com style faxes..
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> -erol M.
>
> When madness reigned! When paradise drowned!
> What happened when Babel's walls came crashing down?
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jeff K.V. Bhavnanie wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > How does OpenSRS authenticate domains coming into SRS from other
> > registrars? is it automated or is some (Human) there checking
> > each domain and getting the admin email ?
> >
> > I say this because, i've tried to transfer a domain into SRS from
> > other registrar, and if their whois is down, there is no way for
> > SRS to check and send a ACK request to the admin of that domain.
> > It fails all the time.
> >
> > Isn't there any other way to get that email address of the admin?
> >
> > Relying on whois doesn't seem to be a good idea.
> >
> > Jeff.
> >
>
