In message <v0311070eb31e0c1fa3c3@[207.252.88.49]>,
Vince Sabio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In case you haven't realized it yet, the InterNIC is now history;
>Network Solutions, in an attempt to build brand identity, has moved
>all of the InterNIC functions to www.networksolutions.com ("The Dot
>Com People" -- ugh). The whois telnet server at rs.internic.net is
>history, though distributed whois is still available.
I'm not sure which WHOIS server _you_ are talking about, but the normal
WHOIS server (port 43) run by Internic still seems to be alive and well
and answering queries as of five seconds ago.
>I hate sounding like I'm rooted in the past, but the more this stuff
>keeps happening, the more I really appreciate The Good Olde Days, when
>the Net was simpler, and my packets had to walk 10 miles through the
>snow to get to the nearest router (and it was uphill both ways). ;-)
I will be PLENTY pissed too, when and if they actually _do_ stop servicing
whois queries. I wrote a fairly extensive world-wide domain name lookup
program (see http://www.imrss.org/cgi-bin/dnw.cgi) that relies on that
being there, and working. If they take it away [*] ... which they pro-
bably _will_ be stupid enough to try to do at some point... then I have
a feeling that I won't be the only one who will get mighty pissed about
that.
[*] NSI _is_ obviously now trying to remake itself into a more competitive
more commercial animal. As part of this makeover, I _do_ expect that at
some point they will say again... as they have tried to say in the past...
that their data base of data on all .COM domains is in fact a juicy
``intellecutal property asset'' that they will not share, in any way shape
or form, with anybody. The absurdity of this position with regards to the
ongoing smooth functioning of the net should be obvious... to anyone outside
of NSI at least.
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