On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, at 11:29 [=GMT-0500], Brian Curtis wrote: > Is it not in violation of "ICANN Rules & Regs" to disallow the > retrieval of WHOIS info for domains under a registrar? > > Case in point, whois.parava.net : > unable to connect to whois.parava.net (111: Connection refused) > > So, one cannot retrieve info on any domain registered via > "Parava.net", which seems to be a front for naame.com (new > registrations) and nicgenie.com (expiring domain services). > > This is not the first time I've encountered this problem. Very > irritating...
I've encountered this problem too. The whois seems to work through the website of www.naame.net. Not that I find it acceptable that the simple unix tool on port 43 doesn't do the trick...
