Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > the issue covered by the > URIWhois plugin would be much more efficiently solved by a centralized > solution, in which "someone" gathers registration data from registars (maybe > even not through whois, but through direct db access) and then publics this > data by some network-savvy protocol (like DNS, in example).
DOB, for example, is run by ar.com, who are a registrar. Since they are a domain registrar, they have full, direct access to the whois database. Jeff C.