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Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
From: Derek Balling <dredd () megacity org>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:35:12 -0500
At 11:59 AM 9/2/98 -0500, Andy Walden wrote:
Was this company "an abuser" because they wanted to do lookups of a useful nature? (And yes, they put in caching and such so they wouldn't be queryingYes. Thats not the intent of the whois database in my opinion. Marketing and general greed causes the most problems on the Internet and generates the most instances of someone trying to exploit something for the almighty dollar.
I guess I would tend to disagree. The whois database is there so that the Internet users - be they marketing types or technical types - can obtain information about a domain name. I might not be interested in that aspect of it MYSELF (for me, it is generally the technical contact I am looking for, or rarely the admin contact), but for others it is the company name. What makes their use "WRONG" and mine "RIGHT"? D
Current thread:
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois, (continued)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Christopher K. Phillips (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Michael L. Barrow (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Jon Zeeff (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Derek Balling (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Andy Walden (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Michael L. Barrow (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Patrick Greenwell (Sep 02)
- Related to the flaky record info. Andy Walden (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Michael L. Barrow (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dan Watts (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois bmanning (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Christopher K. Phillips (Sep 02)
- Message not available
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Derek Balling (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Andy Walden (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Bill Becker (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Patrick Greenwell (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dean Robb (Sep 04)
- RE: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)