> >Thus, if find .nu and bring up the details it is all wrapped up in NSI's
> >headers, advertisements, etc, even though the small text that I was
> >actually looking for pertains to a competing registry.
> >
> >This is not only odd, but it is improper.
> When ISI created this page not too long ago, rather than creating
> their own registry for their root and doing lookups against that, they
> simply created a html page that did a lookup of domain handles using
> the NSI port 80 whois script. That's ISI's doing, not NSI's.
Right, I figured that it wasn't NSI's doing, but IANA/ICANN's lack of
ability to have their own official copy of the root zone contact database.
In any event, it is not a good thing and needs to be fixed. The onus and
responsibility of doing so is on IANA and/or ICANN.
One would suspect that out of ICANN's proposed $5,000,000/year budget with
14 people on staff (some of whom, according to the budget, would receive
six figure salaries) that they could fix this.
--karl--
