Dena and William,
Well of course this "Opinion" is just that, and opinion. And for what it is
worth, pure bunkum!
William X. Walsh wrote:
> On 23-Dec-1999 Dena Whitebirch wrote:
> >> > Most whois clients query the public NSIRegistry database first
> >> > which only updates *once per day* so it's quite possible for
> >> > someone to do a domain query and be shown the old whois
> >> > information of the old registrar. Nothing is wrong.
> >>
> >> No, nothing is wrong as far as the design goes. But of course that is
> >> not far enough, is it. Therefore leaving the ability for registrars to
> >> "Steal" domain names and/or create a domain name conflict from the
> >> get go. Doesn't say much for stability, does it?
> >
> > The more I think about this today...because we have to query the
> > individual whois databases of the individual registrars, and because they
> > can update them when and however they wish, it would seem that now a whois
> > query is merely an opinion of a particular registrar without possibly any
> > basis in fact.
> >
>
> Actually what it illustrates is the need to be educated between the difference
> of what is shown in the whois and what is in the dns zone files. The problem
> here is that NSI has never maintained a real time whois service. So people,
> such as you, became accustomed to whois not showing the data until after the
> zone files update. Zone files update twice a day now, instead of once, and
> many of the registrars are running real time or near real time whois service.
>
> "Opinion" has nothing to do with it. Learn how to do a simple DNS query. I
> would be happy to help you create a web based interface for you or your users
> to use to check this data. It really is quite simple.
>
> This is not a problem, its simply that people have gotten used to a certain
> pattern, as a result of NSI's not wanting to maintain a dynamic whois service,
> and in their prior acts of only update the zone files once daily. Things are
> much more dynamic now. Time to educate people to look at things from a new
> perspective.
>
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