[19213] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems)
Wed Sep 2 14:18:52 1998
From: "Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems" <sully@votiv.com>
To: "Michael L. Barrow" <mlbarrow@eni.net>,
"Christopher K. Phillips" <ckp@vanion.com>
Cc: "David H. Holtzman" <dholtz@internic.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:37:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: <35ED64F2.8A30F821@eni.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Michael L. Barrow
> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 11:32 AM
> To: Christopher K. Phillips
> Cc: David H. Holtzman; nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
>
>
> Christopher K. Phillips wrote:
> >
>
> > I may be wrong but aren't the fees that Network Solutions is
> charging for
> > domain name registration "supposed" to cover the costs of
> providing WHOIS
> > service for those domains? Is this just another attempt to
> nickel and dime
> > everyone to death on some sort of new usage charge for WHOIS service?
>
> Who said anything about usage charges? It looks like the proposed work
> mentioned by David Holtzman is to control _abuse_ of the whois service.
> Otherwise, the load on whois will grow without bounds and we'd
> eventually have to pay more in registration fees. Of course, that's just
> my figurin' and nothing official...
>
Why is SAIC hiring (may have hired by now) a marketing manager to market the
whois database?
Cheers,
Alan
> --
> Michael L. Barrow * <mlbarrow@eni.net> * Network Engineer
> Epoch Internet * DSL Engineering * (949) 399-8413
>
