[19222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Sena)
Wed Sep 2 15:56:51 1998
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:10:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Sena <ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809012241.SAA16311@merit.edu>
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, 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?
Could be me - but it kind of sounded like they were blocking abusers -
like address harvesters - single sites with thousands of requests in a
short period of time - that can't trully be labled a bad thing now can it?
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I am nothing if not net-Q! - ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net
