[62657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign vs ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Sat Sep 20 17:07:07 2003
In-Reply-To: <20030920193714.GA16758@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:03:04 -0400
To: Simon Lockhart <simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk>
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 8:37 PM +0100 9/20/03, Simon Lockhart wrote:
>Okay, to Internet "Experts", things are broken - their domain checking scripts
>no longer return "domain available" (why not just check whois.internic.net?).
To quote Verisign, although this is true of all other whois providers:
>TERMS OF USE: You are not authorized to access or query our Whois
>database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and
>automated except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or
>modify existing registrations; the Data in VeriSign Global Registry
Never mind that there isn't a standard format for the returned
information between providers.
The whois database is not a replacement for a DNS query.
--
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
