Ya' I seen that post earlier in the last 24 hours... Dunno. With the domain market the way it is, I don't see that tool valuable enough to fight the programming changes especially when they are not announced to the resellers prior to give us time to start working on the code prior.
-- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net (812) 275-8425 - Office (815) 364-1278 - Fax ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Chvostek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: Re: Geektools whois proxy - OpenSRS Whois Results > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:22:25AM -0500, Mike Allen wrote: > > > > I guess we will just have a separate link to the SRS who-is and let them > > deal with the extra bandwidth for the TLD's they sell ;) > > It's no extra bandwidth to OpenSRS for you to point to their whois > rather than run a whois "proxy" that queries their server. Whether > they pass the data to you or directly to your customers, they're still > handing out the data. > > The only extra data is the 1.5K of fine print, which almost triples the > bytes of the average whois query, regardless of recipient. See Ross' > email re the Tucows Whois Access Terms. I didn't get an impression from > Ross' post as to whether a URL pointer like that was in the works, but > it would certainly save some bandwidth. > > In my view, a "bare-bones" whois for use only by RSPs, IP-restricted, > perhaps with an easily parsed RIPE-style output format, would be > invaluable. > > -- > Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Operations / Abuse / Whatever +1 416 598-0000 > it.canada - hosting and development http://www.it.ca/ > >
