Lynn W. Taylor wrote:
I have one question, and maybe I'm missing something:
You are. :-)
Because our users do not speak English! And AFAIK at least half of the world don't, either, even if this surprises many :-) If I tell my users "address" or "owner information", they do not understand it, this kind of whois info is simply useless to them. They do not understand, if everything on my site is in Hungarian, then why I output English text (with 1000 lines of disclaimer and similar things, which they don't understand, either). If I tell them "this is anti-spam policy", you can guess what they will tell me (besides "anti what? whose? so what?").Why does the WHOIS result need to be easily machine-parsed?
I still think that the whois should not talk to you and tell you stories. I think it should give you data, period. Pure, understandable data, which I can translate and restructure (e.g. <B><xsl:value-of idontrememberxsltsyntax="domain/owner_address1"/></B>). That is what XML is for. That is what free text is not for.
Basically I need to know "who registered this domain and when" and display it. For what else would you use WHOIS data anyway?
- Cs.
