> Of course they are assuming that no registrant will ever put
> the pharse "whois server:" somewhere in their contact data.
> (maybe they have already thought of this and banned the entry
> of that complete phrase)
I can confirm that they are not and that I have - check byte.org, you'll
also get some intentional taunting of the trademark lobby. :)
-rwr
"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an
idiot."
- Steven Wright
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> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 12:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: What's up with .ORG Contacts?
>
>
> > This is awful. Why don't they simply give the same kind of referral
> > record like Verisign does? Then one can parse it and go to
> the correct
> > whois. I can do this also now, but with this mess they currently
> > display I fear wording could easily change and there's also
> no way to
> > find out when records actually have been transferred and
> are available
> > from PIR.
>
> They are using the phrase "whois server:" to flag an entry as
> a referral, so set~ up your parsing script to detect that
> phrase then query the referred WHOIS server.
>
> Of course they are assuming that no registrant will ever put
> the pharse "whois server:" somewhere in their contact data.
> (maybe they have already thought of this and banned the entry
> of that complete phrase)
>
>
