What I mean is that the ability to recurse to NSI's whois output really only helps NSI customers (and the occasional law enforcement/IP lawyer/Spam hunter type). In other words, people that generally need to use this *aren't* your customers, but someone else's, and therefore, because you are providing the lookup facility pro bono, you are essentially assuming some of the cost of support that NSI would otherwise have to bear.
-rwr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Rafferty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:19 PM Subject: Re: Netsol denying WHOIS queries > On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Ross Wm. Rader wrote: > > The solution to this problem is to allow NSI to service their own customers > > via their own whois interface. You can still do checks and adds through our > > system without any problem - offering whois to various registrars > > essentially allows them to distribute their support costs to third parties > > without payment. Think twice about why a whois lookup for NSI hosted domains > > is important - I think you'll be surprised at the answers. > > I can and do use whois.opensrs.net. However, for domains hosted at > networksolutions (or register.com, etc), the full whois record can only > be obtained by hitting their whois server. > > Not sure what you mean by "offering whois to various registrars essentially > allows them to distribute their support costs..." It's my understanting > that (as Internic, if that means anything anymore) Netsol is required to > provide a public whois server. If anyone is paying for that service, it's > netsol customers. > > Of course...I could be wrong, in which case somebody please enlighten me. :) > > -k
