[25819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Port 43 Whois Announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Tue Nov 16 18:07:38 1999
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:23:47 -0500
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: whois@nsiregistry.net
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This isn't nonsense. Its a necessary part of having multiple registrars. This whois is used to avoid namespace collisions between registrars, as well as find the appropriate registrar for a domain.
My question (should just test I suppose) is if the rwhois client will automatically query the delegated whois server for the rest of the information. Now that might be useful...
--Dean
Around 03:40 PM 11/16/1999 -0500, rumor has it that William Allen Simpson said:
>
>What nonsense is this?
>
>The registrant and contact information should be in the same
>records as the name servers. After all, that's why we called
>it "whois", not something else. We want the "who" part, so that
>we can contact them!
>
>Please quote the exact language in the MoU that describes removing
>the "who" from whois?
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>"Newell, Tom" wrote:
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>> An FYI of an operational nature.......
>>
>> --Tom
>> Director of gTLD Programs
>> NSI Registry
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>> ##########################################
>>
>> Redirecting Port 43 Whois
>>
>> The following change is being made to comply with the recently
>> negotiated and signed agreements between the U.S. Department of
>> Commerce, ICANN, and NSI.
>>
>> Effective December 1, 1999 Network Solutions will be redirecting
>> port 43 (rs.internic.net) Whois from the NSI Registrar Whois to
>> the NSI Registry Whois. The NSI Registry Whois can currently be
>> found at whois.nsiregistry.net. After this occurs, port 43 Whois
>> will show the following information: domain name, registrar, Whois
>> server, registrar referral URL and the names of the name servers
>> associated with the domain. To obtain registrant and domain name
>> contact information, users will need to refer to the Whois service
>> provided by the registrar for the domain name.
>>
>> Send questions or comments to whois@nsiregistry.net.
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>WSimpson@UMich.edu
> Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
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