On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:35:51PM -0500, Ross Wm. Rader wrote: > 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.
Ah, I see what you mean, thanks. At this point the question of using their server or not is pretty moot to me. They've labeled us an "abuser" so I've had to drop that capability. My original question stands though: has anyone else been unfairly targeted as an "abuser" of Netsol's whois server? The "black helicopters" guy in me wonders if this is some kind of lame attempt by Verisign to degrade the capabilities of competing registrars. -k
