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Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
From: Bill Becker <bbecker () iconn net>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:31:10 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Derek Balling wrote:
Yes. 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
Whatever it's purpose, let's not lose sight of the fact that NSI is using their database to market Verisign certs via UCE. Makes you wonder if this is about bandwidth and load average, or about competition. Bill
Current thread:
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois, (continued)
- 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 Dan Watts (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois bmanning (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)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Michael L. Barrow (Sep 02)