[76406] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: no whois info ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Rosowski)
Thu Dec 9 13:50:45 2004
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:50:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij@ie.ymp.gov>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412090756150.31092-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> shell1% whois vestigial3had.com
> ...
>> No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM".
>> What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere ?
>
> Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10
> minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data
> is still updated once or twice a day. 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!
You can also make whois information private, usually for an additional
fee.
