[76396] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: no whois info ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Thu Dec 9 10:57:07 2004
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:55:40 -0500
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412090756150.31092-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 11:17 AM 09/12/2004, william(at)elan.net wrote:
>Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10
>minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz)
Yes, I was aware of that.
>while whois data
>is still updated once or twice a day.
I (wrongly) assumed that the initial whois data would be immediately there
to be seen at registration time....
>That means if spammer registers new
>domain he'll be able to use it immediatly and it'll not yet show up in
>whois (and so not be immediatly identifiable to spam reporting tools) -
>and spammers are in fact using this "feature" more and more!
What a lovely well thought out feature....
---Mike
