The most obvious being the one stated earlier:
Getting the owners email to be able to initiate a transfer.
Another one being just plain old standardization to make things easier on the eyes ....... This is why I love the non-tiered whois of Afilias and Neulevel. Although Neulevel seems to have some bugs they need to fix!
There is another important application that I've not seen anyone execute on and so I'm keeping my mouth shut since *I AM* executing on this opertunity ... Hopefully the product announacement will be this quarter or next.
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:33:48 -0800
"Lynn W. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have one question, and maybe I'm missing something:
Why does the WHOIS result need to be easily machine-parsed?
Without ransacking the database, how would we use this?
-- Lynn
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:18:36 +0100, Csongor Fagyal wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
�For what it's worth I personally agree that the whois should have an
�XML component.
Yo my friend, drink vodka!Well, for me, I do NOT need an e-mail address in the XML DTD, if that�But *NOT* until we creatively address the spammer issue.
makes anti-spammers happy :-) Let's make a new RFC for it or something,
it just sooo easy. I don't care if it is SOAP or gzipped XML or
whatever, but make it computer-readable. Optionally let the registar
modify the e-mails to ******@domain, I don' care, but to parse a
changing txt file (basically to achieve nothing) is something I find
unacceptable.
�Yes spammers will in the end get email addresses. But I firmly believeMaybe:
�there is more than enough intelectual horsepower among the internet
�community to come up with a way to make whois mining intractable .....
- for "anonymous" users, limit the number of WHOIS requests to a very
small number / IP / day, and change e-mail addresses to ****@domain
- for "trusted" users (well, it is hard to define this... maybe this one
is not needed at all), limit the number of WHOIS requests from the same
user/day, and include e-mail addresses in the response
If you do a GET_DOMAIN (all_info) in the API, what you get is basically
XML WHOIS . Let's move all domains to OpenSRS and then we have to worry
no more ;-)
- Cs.
