I'm not at all convinced that any of us here __need__ the administrator's E-Mail address to transfer a domain.
OpenSRS does need a way to recover the administrator's address, accurately, so they may verify it. The policy info is another issue: most of the time the info is a contract and must be displayed -- no options. -- Lynn On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:21:36 +0100, Csongor Fagyal wrote: >Lynn W. Taylor wrote: > >>I have one question, and maybe I'm missing something: >> >You are. :-) > >>Why does the WHOIS result need to be easily machine-parsed? >> >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?"). > >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. > >
