How about the following scenario: 1. someone signed up for zone files (free) 2. someone2 wrote a perl script for someone for $50 (25/hr) that perl script does the following: opens zone file stored localy. queries using oroginal registrar whois server. looks if expiration date is in the next century or less, if this the case puts all necesarry information into template. when all zone file are done prints results. Then manyaly someone3 puts it into envelops an mails it (bulk) 3. someone gets payments from the customers of other registrars. 4. Since ICANN takes no action and this "additional" incomes saves the company from Ch 11. this info is priceless. --- Doug McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone with the inner moral slime to do something like this has > access to > > the information. Just sign up for access to the zone files. This > is not > > something that requires special access. That is why you get it > from all > > sides and from places you have never done business with... > > It's actually not quite that easy... not without breaking the rules > anyway. > What you need to do is contact Register.com and purchase their whois > database. They are required by ICANN regulation to sell it to you for > not > more than $10k. > > Zone files won't help you with the particulars. You would still need > to get > the whois information. Doing it on your own for commercial purposes > would be > whois mining and could open you up to legal ramifications. Of course, > IANAL. > > Just my $0.02, > > -dm >
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