Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
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Da: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It appears that you selectively missed the part that applies:
"You agree that you will use this data only for lawful purposes and
that, under no circumstances will you use this data to: (a) [...] or
(b)
enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that send queries
or
data to the systems of Registry Operator or any ICANN-Accredited
Registrar, except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or
modify existing registrations."
This means nothing: what is a "high volume"?
Anything more than a few queries per minute (such as you might generate
by doing lookups one by one, by hand, with a command-line WHOIS client,
or via their web interface).
Also, you normally use the
"whois" command. Isn't it an "automated, electronic process"?
That depends on how it's called. If you run it from the command line,
by hand, it's not automated. If you call it in a loop from a script
(or, oh, say, something like SA), then it's automated.
These terms comes from early internet ages, when spammers were used to
scavenge their data from whois records too. They were meant to "scare"
people abusing this service. Today, most domain registrars don't even public
e-mail addresses anymore...
Mmmh. Sort of. The WHOIS system really *isn't* designed for large
volumes of queries the way DNS is - why do you think sa-update or
freshclam use DNS to tell the caller whether there's an update or not?
Why are RBLs made available in DNS form rather than distributing a bare
list of URIs or IP addresses via HTTP?
What is the source, by the way? Which TLD?
Aside from the specific wording, that's pretty standard boilerplate for
any registrar's WHOIS service that I've ever seen.
-kgd
