Taco,
We *used* to block NSI whois explicitly, but in the past couple of months
we have allowed it back in - unless they're exceeding some limits, which
we've set quite high for them (since they are the largest producer of
whois traffic on our systems) :)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Taco Scargo wrote:
> It is definately Tucows. They are blocking whois requests from Network
> Solutions. I don't like that, but Tucows told me I have to live with it.
>
> Taco Scargo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:31
> Subject: Re: NetSol Whois follies
>
>
> > > The whois lookup at Network Solutions' website seems to do recursion for
> > > other registrars OK.
> > >
> >
> > No, it doesn't. ;-) They display awful behavior at
> > whois.networksolutions.com for some days now. They even think that a
> > domain I registered two days ago for a client with INWW is still available
> > and they haven't put up the domain on the root-servers either - but it
> > shows up at nsiregistry.net.
> > If I query others of our domains at whois.networksolutions.com it just
> > times out after a while with a "complete". So, it's definitely not Tucows,
> > it's the whois there. This already happened several times during the past
> > months.
> >
> >
> > Kai
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kai Sch�tzl, Berlin, Germany
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> >
> >
> >
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