> > I've noticed a new field in the root registry record for domain names > > in the VGRS registry called Referral URL.
Hmm. I thought that was always there. I could be wrong... > whois.opensrs.net). It's done on a registrar-by-registrar basis, so > unlikely to be possible to change that on a reseller basis.... The registries and ICANN don't know anything about resellers nor do they want to admit they know that they exist... > For consistency, they might want to "brand" the URL as > http://whois.opensrs.net/ (or whois.opensrs.com/org, if they want it to > be on a different machine for load-balancing from the port 43 one) too, > with similar content as the current http://domainhelp.tucows.com/. I think it was more than a year ago now that they started branding everything as Tucows and moving away from the OpenSRS brand (try www.opensrs.org and see where you end up). So really, the WHOIS should be changed to a tucows domain for consistency. But they probably won't do that because of all the apps that have hardcoded whois.opensrs.net into their code... -- <=> ASK and you shall receive <=>
