John and all,
What is even more interesting and reveling is it looks on the surface
anyway that Register.com knew it was going to be a ICANN test
bed registrar sense feb of this year.... Wonder how that might be, hummm?
John B. Reynolds wrote:
> Bill Lovell wrote
> > At 09:45 AM 6/11/99 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Actually, this presents a problem. Most whois clients only look at the
> > >single registry, assuming one registrar per TLD and they do NOT
> > >differentiate between registries and registrars, as that is a recent
> > >distinction. Certainly, whois does not understand that there may be
> > >multiple whois servers to search for a TLD.
> > >
> > >The compatible answer is for the SRS to update the registry at all
> > >times, with sufficient information to populate whoisd. Also, a whois
> > >client can be updated and distrbuted, but that will take a while to
> > >propogated through the net (years). It is much better to fix it on the
> > >server-end. This is also part of database synchronization, IMTO (In My
> > >Technical Opinion). It indicates an ill-thoughtout architecture or an
> > >incomplete implementation.
> > >
> > >-----------------------------
> > >Roeland M.J. Meyer
> > >Morgan Hill Software Company, Inc.
> > >http://staff.mhsc.com/~rmeyer
> > >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >-----------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Owner-Domain-Policy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > >> Behalf Of John B. Reynolds
> > >> Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 9:15 AM
> > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> Subject: Re: have you check your company lately
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> So, if one cares only about whether a domain has been
> > >> registered and not by
> > >> whom, one should just query whois.crsnic.net.
> >
> > So click on http://whois.crsnic.net and see what happens.
> > I've tried several times today and got nuthin' -- the old
> > "not responding" bit.
> >
> > Bill Lovell
> >
>
> The Web-based interface is at http://www.crsnic.net or
> http://www.nsiregistry.net. Whois.crsnic.net is where the port 43 whois
> server is located.
Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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