Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-21 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jun 18, 2013, at 11:25 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote: > I think this is the correct strategy, BUT, I see as a very active participant > in ICANN (chair of SSAC) that work in ICANN could be easier if some "more" > technical standards where developed in IETF, and moved forward along > standards

Re: [IETF] IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-21 Thread John Curran
On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:56 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > While I agree with the above (and am still trying to avoid > carrying this conversation very far on the IETF list), I think > another part of the puzzle is that there are also situations in > which technical considerations imply real constraint

Re: [IETF] IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, June 21, 2013 11:46 -0400 John Curran wrote: >... >> Let's not complicate things further by making the assumption >> that anything that reasonably looks like "technical stuff" >> belongs in the IETF and not in ICANN. It is likely to just >> make having the right conversations even

Re: [IETF] IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-21 Thread David Farmer
On 6/21/13 10:46 , John Curran wrote: I believe that policy issues that are under active discussion in ICANN can also be discussed in the IETF, but there is recognition that ICANN is likely the more appropriate place to lead the process of consensus development and approval. I believe that prot

Re: [IETF] IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-21 Thread John Curran
On Jun 19, 2013, at 8:43 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > ... > The point, Warren (and others) is that all of these are "ICANN > doing technical stuff" and even "technical standards" in a broad > sense of that term. Some of it is stuff that the IETF really > should not want to do (I'm tempted to say

Re: [IETF] Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-19 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, June 19, 2013 17:14 -0400 Warren Kumari wrote: >>> I think this is the correct strategy, BUT, I see as a very >>> active participant in ICANN (chair of SSAC) that work in >>> ICANN could be easier if some "more" technical standards >>> where developed in IETF, > > + lots. > >

Re: [IETF] Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-19 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jun 19, 2013, at 4:29 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 19/06/2013 18:25, Patrik Fältström wrote: >> On 18 jun 2013, at 18:54, Jari Arkko wrote: >> >>> As for the rest of the discussion - I'm sure there are things to be >>> improved in ICANN. I'd suggest though that some of the feedback m

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 19/06/2013 18:25, Patrik Fältström wrote: > On 18 jun 2013, at 18:54, Jari Arkko wrote: > >> As for the rest of the discussion - I'm sure there are things to be improved >> in ICANN. I'd suggest though that some of the feedback might be better >> placed in an ICANN discussion than on IETF li

Re: Lessons from PROVREG WG was Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois...

2013-06-19 Thread Edward Lewis
I stand corrected. My recollection about the initial pushback should be clarified...by the time the reason got to me, EPP was something ICANN had asked of the IETF. Consider that to be subject to the "telephone game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_game)" syndrome. ;) On Jun 19, 2013,

RE: Lessons from PROVREG WG was Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois...

2013-06-19 Thread Hollenbeck, Scott
From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Edward Lewis Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 12:01 PM To: ietf Cc: Edward Lewis Subject: Lessons from PROVREG WG was Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois... [snip] > This is an example of an ICANN initiated piece of work that bar

Re: Lessons from PROVREG WG was Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois...

2013-06-19 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 19 jun 2013, at 18:01, Edward Lewis wrote: > Looking back in hindsight, what would help is to have some means for the IETF > to provide a maintenance vehicle for it's products. Or realize that the > "waterfall model" that seems to be in place is no longer appropriate. (As if > you've nev

Re: Lessons from PROVREG WG was Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois...

2013-06-19 Thread Thomas Narten
> Looking back in hindsight, what would help is to have some means for the > IETF to provide a maintenance vehicle for it's products. I think there is some truth to this. The reality has at times been that some WGs get a bit out of control after they've been around a while, and getting them to d

Re: Lessons from PROVREG WG was Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois...

2013-06-19 Thread joel jaeggli
On 6/19/13 9:01 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: Looking back in hindsight, what would help is to have some means for the IETF to provide a maintenance vehicle for it's products. Or realize that the "waterfall model" that seems to be in place is no longer appropriate. (As if you've never heard that

Lessons from PROVREG WG was Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois...

2013-06-19 Thread Edward Lewis
On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:01, Paul Hoffman wrote: > But there is no EPP WG. And WEIRDS is supposed to only be forward-looking, > not dealing with practices with the current protocol. Brief history and then maybe a point. (Written as one of the co-chairs of the PROVREG WG.) In December 2000 a Bo

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-19 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Jun 19, 2013, at 2:27 AM, Patrik Fältström wrote: > And do not let me get started on EPP or Whois issues... ;-) Actually, let's let you get started. :-) Part of the problem you are seeing with the lack of RFCs desired by ICANN is that it is now harder to get an individual su

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-19 Thread Patrik Fältström
ed for this draft is in the ICANN context, not the IETF context, so of course it is hard to see the need in the IETF. Lack of an RFC there is by definition creating discussions in ICANN that goes on and on. And do not let me get started on EPP or Whois issues... ;-) > Sometimes peop

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-19 Thread SM
Hi Patrik, At 23:25 18-06-2013, Patrik Fältström wrote: I think this is the correct strategy, BUT, I see as a very active participant in ICANN (chair of SSAC) that work in ICANN could be easier if some "more" technical standards where developed in IETF, and moved forward along standards track,

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-18 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 18 jun 2013, at 18:54, Jari Arkko wrote: > As for the rest of the discussion - I'm sure there are things to be improved > in ICANN. I'd suggest though that some of the feedback might be better placed > in an ICANN discussion than on IETF list. And is not like there'd be nothing > to improv

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-18 Thread Randy Bush
> As for the rest of the discussion - I'm sure there are things to be > improved in ICANN. I'd suggest though that some of the feedback might > be better placed in an ICANN discussion than on IETF list. when that feedback is that the icann does not really listen to feedback, i think there is a pro

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: > Chris: The last call on RFC 2050 bis has ended. The draft will be shortly on > the IESG telechat, up for an approval decision and/or suggestion for changes. > I personally think it is ready to move forward. That is not to say that we > would

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-18 Thread Jari Arkko
John, > For the record, I still believe that 2050bis should be > published. Regardless of what I think of some of the things it > says, I think it is reasonably reflective of reality and that > reality is always worth documenting. Thanks. > As to my more general comments, they were not really a

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, June 18, 2013 19:54 +0300 Jari Arkko wrote: > Chris: The last call on RFC 2050 bis has ended. The draft will > be shortly on the IESG telechat, up for an approval decision > and/or suggestion for changes. I personally think it is ready > to move forward. That is not to say that we

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-18 Thread Jari Arkko
Chris: The last call on RFC 2050 bis has ended. The draft will be shortly on the IESG telechat, up for an approval decision and/or suggestion for changes. I personally think it is ready to move forward. That is not to say that we wouldn't take comments, if you have some. As for the rest of the

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
has > another effect: only those with a very strong commitment to the > work and resources to back that commitment up can participate in > practice. Those people usually turn out to be those with a > vested interest in particular results, interests that are > dominated by those wi

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-18 Thread John C Klensin
selling names. Others who might be willing to invest personal resources to participate in the best interests of the Internet are typically driven out of active participation in the process, if not initially than by the sequence and multitude of committees and inability to even figure out where th

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-05-21 Thread SM
ks for the reference. I have read some messages [1][2] from the person. I don't recall reading the book. As the subject line mentions Whois I found something to read [3]. Regards, -sm 1. http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2012-April/024498.html 2. http://lists.ripe.net/pipermail/ad

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-05-21 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/21/2013 8:50 AM, SM wrote: I gather that everyone is aware that civil society has been somewhat uncivil lately. That society has not made any significant negative comments about the IETF. Actually it has. Since he's such a long-active figure in those circles, check out Milton Mueller's

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-05-21 Thread SM
Hi Olivier, At 03:00 21-05-2013, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote: And you do NOT need to be part of an At-Large Structure to participate in the At-Large Working Groups. Membership is only needed for matters of voting - and since we operate by consensus, that's a rare occurrence, usually only kept

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-05-21 Thread SM
Hi Steve, At 01:42 21-05-2013, Steve Crocker wrote: I want to share two thoughts, one about the role of the IETF, ICANN and other organizations within the Internet ecosystem, and one about Whois. The great strength of the IETF is it's a forum for technical people to come together, wor

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-05-21 Thread Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
Dear Randy, On 21/05/2013 11:58, Randy Bush wrote: > dear emperor, despite the braggadocio, there seems to be a shortage of > attire. icann is notorious for pretending to be open but being > effectively closed. it solicits public comment and ignores it. i could > go on and on, but i am far less

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-05-21 Thread Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
On 21/05/2013 10:42, Steve Crocker wrote: > As I said above, I invite anyone who is interested to participate. > > The IETF, ICANN, the RIRs, ISOC, W3C and other organizations have all arisen > within the ecosystem that accompanies the growth and prevalence of the > Internet. It is natural for t

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-05-21 Thread Randy Bush
dear emperor, despite the braggadocio, there seems to be a shortage of attire. icann is notorious for pretending to be open but being effectively closed. it solicits public comment and ignores it. i could go on and on, but i am far less wordy. randy

IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-05-21 Thread Steve Crocker
Dan and John, Thanks for the exchange last week. As chair of ICANN's Board of Directors and an active participant in ICANN's current effort to take a fresh look at the Whois architecture and operation, your notes catch my attention in multiple ways. But first, for the benefit of u

WHOIS is now AAAQ.com?

2007-01-02 Thread Kyse Faril
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Re: New attempt to kill "whois"

2005-08-24 Thread Frank Ellermann
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> I believe Frank's concern is that he wants the ability to >> refuse services to sites who have not published accurate >> contact information through whois. > Very bad idea, IMHO. But it's true that, if you refuse email > from "

Re: New attempt to kill "whois"

2005-08-24 Thread Frank Ellermann
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: > voluntary publication of information has an extremely > flexible and powerfull tool at its disposition. It is > named the web. Sure, and reporting trouble also has some powerful tools, send a mail to postmaster@ or abuse@ or similar addresses. The whois in

Re: New attempt to kill "whois"

2005-08-24 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
(somewhat offtrack...) --On 24. august 2005 10:27 +0200 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The vast majority of the ccTLD in the world have no whois server (check the "whois server" field in the IANA whois) and often not publication of contact information at

Re: New attempt to kill "whois"

2005-08-24 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:35:23PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > I believe Frank's concern is that he wants the ability to refuse > services to sites who have not published accurate contact > information through whois.

Re: New attempt to kill "whois"

2005-08-23 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 23:35 23/08/2005, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:38, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Nobody suggested to kill the whois protocol, just the badly written > and obsolete RFCs which were requiring violations of various european > laws regarding privacy. Neither ICANN or IE

Re: New attempt to kill "whois"

2005-08-23 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 11:38, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Nobody suggested to kill the whois protocol, just the badly written > and obsolete RFCs which were requiring violations of various european > laws regarding privacy. Neither ICANN or IETF should specify privacy > policy for

Re: New attempt to kill "whois"

2005-08-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
y to stay up to date with efforts like the expired > draft-sanz, or whois-servers.net, or the persistent attempts to > destroy simple Internet infrastructure like "whois" in favour of > complex solutions. Nobody suggested to kill the whois protocol, just the badly written and obso

New attempt to kill "whois"

2005-08-22 Thread Frank Ellermann
replacing "whois" for the purposes of registries, e.g. http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-crisp-iris-lwz-04 Marcos Sanz (with Gerhard Winkler) was the author of http://purl.net/xyzzy/home/test/draft-sanz-whois-srv-01.txt He's also working for DENIC, and probably he does

Re: Uniqueness of WHOIS handles

2002-10-16 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
unfortunately WHOIS is a protocol, and a rather simple one. handles are part of the service that some registries/registrars have chosen to implement on top of the WHOIS protocol. (Others provide similar services, but don't use handles; others use the WHOIS protocol for completely unre

Re: Uniqueness of WHOIS handles

2002-10-12 Thread Einar Stefferud
I suspect that a better answer was desired. I suggest that the local WHOIS handles be distinguished by the global WHOIS database name. I am assuming that no two WHOIS database providers use the same global handle for their WHOIS servers. Then your database searches can find the instances of

Re: Uniqueness of WHOIS handles

2002-10-12 Thread Rick Wesson
Florian, there is no guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles. there is no name space for whois, nor an entity to register such. pick any prefix you wish. -rick On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Florian Weimer wrote: > Is there some method to guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles? > Can I re

Uniqueness of WHOIS handles

2002-10-12 Thread Florian Weimer
Is there some method to guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles? Can I register affixes somehwere? I'm currently creating a WHOIS-like database (which might be publicly accessible one day), and I'd like to avoid handle collisions with other WHOIS databases. (I asked a similar questi

RE: whois service

2001-11-11 Thread Martin Djernæs
Hi, Thanks for the answer - that was what I expected it too be ;-( Martin > -Original Message- > From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11. november 2001 09:40 > To: Martin Djernaes; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: whois service > > > I beli

Re: whois service

2001-11-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
i, > > I have been looking in the RFCs, but I doesn't seem to be able to find > an exact answer. So I'll try drop the question in here "Must a ccTld > registrar (like dk-hostmaster.dk) supply a whois service?". > > The reason I ask, is that whois.dk-hostma

whois service

2001-11-09 Thread Martin Djernaes
Hi, I have been looking in the RFCs, but I doesn't seem to be able to find an exact answer. So I'll try drop the question in here "Must a ccTld registrar (like dk-hostmaster.dk) supply a whois service?". The reason I ask, is that whois.dk-hostmaster.dk have been taken our

RE: Nimda virus and whois search...

2001-10-01 Thread Einar Stefferud
Holder is a good name for the holders of IP addresses. Also, RAND can be very Reasonable without hurting the cause of freedom. But some people are not reasonable, but this is a different problem, and is unlikely to be resolved in our favour by reasonable people. Cheers...\Stef PS: If IP addres

RE: Nimda virus and whois search...

2001-10-01 Thread Francois Menard
> Seriously, what is the appropriate term: owner, rentee, leaser ? Assignee? -=Francois=-

RE: Nimda virus and whois search...

2001-09-30 Thread Joel Jaeggli
expressed in this e-mail may not be necessarily > the views of SOPAC. > > > > -Original Message- > From: Bob Braden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 1 October 2001 3:33 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Nimda virus and whois searc

RE: Nimda virus and whois search...

2001-09-30 Thread Franck Martin
PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Nimda virus and whois search... *> *> While I was implementing a perl script to catch nimda virus on Apache *> (www.digitalcon.ca/nimda/) and send an e-mail to the owner of the IP, I It will come as a great surprise to many people to learn th

Re: Nimda virus and whois search...

2001-09-30 Thread Bob Braden
*> *> While I was implementing a perl script to catch nimda virus on Apache *> (www.digitalcon.ca/nimda/) and send an e-mail to the owner of the IP, I It will come as a great surprise to many people to learn that someone owns IP. At one point, some eager beavers in the US government thou

Re: Nimda virus and whois search...

2001-09-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:35:14 +0300, Pekka Savola said: > - users running traceroute, on incomoing icmp time exceeded messages > triggering an icmp flood "detection" > - using a public ftp server, thus generating an ident query > - using an smtp server, -""- > - etc. My personal pet peeve - ge

RE: Nimda virus and whois search...

2001-09-30 Thread Franck Martin
1 October 2001 3:55 To: Franck Martin Subject: Re: Nimda virus and whois search... Please seriously consider not sending automated email in this way. You're not making matters better by creating a storm of email messages in addition to an already existing storm of HTTP queries. Your resp

Re: Nimda virus and whois search...

2001-09-30 Thread Pekka Savola
ailed report... There are some more advanced whois clients which have more knowledge on where to query and how, e.g. http://freshmeat.net/projects/whois/. That doesn't say, of course, that there wouldn't be any benefits from "standardization"... On the IDS front, I would no

Nimda virus and whois search...

2001-09-30 Thread Franck Martin
While I was implementing a perl script to catch nimda virus on Apache (www.digitalcon.ca/nimda/) and send an e-mail to the owner of the IP, I realised it is rather difficult to automatise whois searches. First of all there are 3 repositories of IP networks: ARIN, APNIC and RIPE. There is no

RIPE Whois RPSL Migration

2000-12-21 Thread RIPE NCC
[ Apologies for duplicate mails ] RIPE Whois RPSL Migration The RIPE Database re-implementation project is nearing completion. A key feature of the new database is the implementation of RPSL, to replace the old RIPE-181 standard. RPSL is similar, but not identical, to RIPE-181. The RIPE NCC

Re: whois?

1999-12-21 Thread John Stracke
Ray Yang wrote: > I'm just wondering -- my whois command doesn't turn up contact information > for domains anymore. What's going on? I get a registrar's name instead I got tired of following the redirects, so I hacked up a wrapper script (/bin/sh) to d

RE: whois?

1999-12-14 Thread Rick H Wesson
Martin, don't expect things to get better about UCE, your registration information is now available for sale. all registrars are required to sell their whois databases for a maximum of $10K, per the latest ICANN/DOC/NSI agreements. -rick On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Martin Essenburg wrote: >

RE: whois?

1999-12-14 Thread Martin Essenburg
I think it is a good idea because companies are using the whois info as a mailing database for there products. I get a ton of snail mail from this MJE Martin Essenburg MCI WorldCom - Global Accounts East 727-431-5907 Vnet: 977-5907 Pager: 1-888-270-9268 (2way) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: whois?

1999-12-13 Thread David R. Conrad
> Network Solutions, had a stroke of mind power and decided to > change the server output format on 12/01. As NSI explained, the change of format was dictated by ICANN (which was in response to the other registrars demands). Blaming NSI is inappropriate. Rgds, -drc

Re: whois?

1999-12-13 Thread Robert G. Ferrell
>I'm just wondering -- my whois command doesn't turn up contact information >for domains anymore. What's going on? I get a registrar's name instead In case anyone's interested, I wrote a little Perl script to sort of streamline command line whois, because I

RE: whois?

1999-12-13 Thread Gentzler, Eric
Network Solutions, had a stroke of mind power and decided to change the server output format on 12/01. Don't you just love how out of the six fields listed that three of them are advertisements for Network Solutions? Like we need to have their URL listed. Use the Geektools whois dat

Re: whois?

1999-12-13 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:40:15PM -0500, Ray Yang wrote: > Hi: > I'm just wondering -- my whois command doesn't turn up contact information > for domains anymore. What's going on? I get a registrar's name instead First off... Whois merely

Re: whois?

1999-12-13 Thread Robert G. Ferrell
>I'm just wondering -- my whois command doesn't turn up contact information >for domains anymore. What's going on? I get a registrar's name instead NSI changed WHOIS servers on 1 December. Use whois -h whois.networksolutions.com Robert G. Ferrell Internet Tech

Re: whois?

1999-12-13 Thread Michael Park
that is because, there are now several competitive and accredited tld registrars. see www.internic.net for more info. so.. just do: whois -h whois.networksolutions.com domain.name whois.networksolutions.com can obviously be substituted with another registrar's whois serve

whois?

1999-12-13 Thread Ray Yang
Hi: I'm just wondering -- my whois command doesn't turn up contact information for domains anymore. What's going on? I get a registrar's name instead Ray