It's being done all the time - they spread the lookups over several unsuspecting whois script owners and time them about one whois querry per so many seconds - we catch them all the time on our whois.cgi and simply block that IP simply to find another rascal trying later, this is one of the reasons we think livestats or similar visitor monitoring are priceless to protect our IP from being banned since there are abuse attempts by harvesters
cheers Genie > 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.
