[25533] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI again removes services (OT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Mon Oct 18 13:13:06 1999
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:01:10 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <19991018130110.A11244@noc.untraceable.net>
Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
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In-Reply-To: <01JH9UDUKSPE922CTO@ACES.COM>; from GAVRON@ACES.COM on Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 08:16:44AM -0700
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>The ever-changing NICNAMES/whois service once again
>does not show _ANY_ dates -- creation, update, or
>database update.
yep. makes sense...they hadn't changed anything for a while.
>Of course the obnoxious and non-legaly-binding
>statement has moved, now to the top of the response.
as of a while ago. in fact...it was between
Tue Aug 17 15:22:34 GMT 1999
Tue Aug 17 23:14:49 GMT 1999
i've been archiving all the whois responses i've gotten for a while
now (since feb 97) and i can point to things like this rather easily.
as for the latest change (the re-removal of some date information),
that happened between
Sun Oct 17 16:26:16 GMT 1999
Mon Oct 18 13:07:46 GMT 1999
but if all you want is activation date (which is preumably the same as
registration data) you can do this:
% whois dump merit.edu
(gratuitous legal warning deleted)
(0) htype: D |
(1) handle: MERIT-DOM|
...
(5) domainame: MERIT.EDU|
...
(10) activation_date: 03-Oct-1986|
...
(37) updated: 19990204-220001 autore|
...
>I sure wish NSI got rid of their lawyers and hired
>some techies.
:)
>I sure wish the alternate registries could display
>this kind of date data.
hear hear.
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