All,
The mighty William the Great has spoken! Let that be a lesson to you all!
Head the word of WILLIAM THE GREAT, he has spoken, so it MUST be true!
YEAH RIGHT! NOT LIKELY! More like the peanut gallery Whiner has
spoken..... ROFLMAO!
William X. Walsh wrote:
> On Fri, 07 May 1999 15:32:18 -0400, "A.M. Rutkowski"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >At 03:04 PM 5/7/99 , Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
> >>Wired: WHO OWNS WHOIS DATABASE? (POL. Thursday)
> >
> >>Robert Raisch, who was active in initial commercialization of the
> >>domain-name system and now an Internet business consultant, said if the
> >>investigation is successful the Whois database will be deemed a public
> >>resource.
> >
> >When did DOJ acquire the authority to deem the information
> >extracted from a private company's customer database a
> >"public resource?"
> >
>
> It isn't this private company's customer database. It is the database
> of registrants in a set of Top Level Domains for which this company
> has been CONTRACTED to manage.
>
> Part of this contract included a compensation mechanism, initially
> with a USG signed check, and then by permitting NSI to retain $35/yr
> per registration.
>
> The USG permited a "compensation mechanism" in the contract that has
> an extremely high value. This was how they compensated NSI for
> carrying out its responsibilities under the contract.
>
> This data was compiled subject to this contract. NSI has no strong
> claim to right to that data, the USG does however.
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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