[83356] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Real-time WHOIS for .COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Aug 11 15:02:50 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Rick Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:01:06 +0200
In-Reply-To: <42FB9E0E.4030602@ar.com> (Rick Wesson's message of "Thu, 11 Aug
2005 11:50:54 -0700")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Rick Wesson:
> the issue is that VGRS does not even allow a registrar to find out this
> information real-time. Other registries publish this information in the
> whois and also make it available to registrars through EPP real-time.
It seems that one of the largest Verisign competitors plans to hide
the registrar information completely and permanently. (They operate
according the thick registry model, if I got the terminology right, so
this is quite possible.) If you don't like this move, speak up.
Unfortunately, only those who know which ccTLD I'm talking about have
a vote. 8-(
> the average length of a phishing e-mail spam last some 45 minues,
ITYM "median". Average is definitely higher.
