I guess I have to ask then...do you really think they don't use the zone files to mine whois?
You say..."not without breaking the rules?" ;) -bryanw -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug McDonald Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:05 PM To: Discuss-List@Opensrs. Org Subject: Re: Register.Com sending letters now???!!! > Anyone with the inner moral slime to do something like this has access to > the information. Just sign up for access to the zone files. This is not > something that requires special access. That is why you get it from all > sides and from places you have never done business with... It's actually not quite that easy... not without breaking the rules anyway. What you need to do is contact Register.com and purchase their whois database. They are required by ICANN regulation to sell it to you for not more than $10k. Zone files won't help you with the particulars. You would still need to get the whois information. Doing it on your own for commercial purposes would be whois mining and could open you up to legal ramifications. Of course, IANAL. Just my $0.02, -dm
