Re: NSI again removes services (OT)

[Andrew Brown <twofsonet () graffiti com>]

> The ever-changing NICNAMES/whois service once again 
> does not show _ANY_ dates -- creation, update, or
> database update.

yep.  makes sense...they hadn't changed anything for a while.

> Of course the obnoxious and non-legaly-binding 
> statement has moved, now to the top of the response.

as of a while ago.  in fact...it was between

   Tue Aug 17 15:22:34 GMT 1999
   Tue Aug 17 23:14:49 GMT 1999

i've been archiving all the whois responses i've gotten for a while
now (since feb 97) and i can point to things like this rather easily.
as for the latest change (the re-removal of some date information),
that happened between

   Sun Oct 17 16:26:16 GMT 1999
   Mon Oct 18 13:07:46 GMT 1999

but if all you want is activation date (which is preumably the same as
registration data) you can do this:

   % whois dump merit.edu
   (gratuitous legal warning deleted)
   (0) htype: D |
   (1) handle: MERIT-DOM|
   ...
   (5) domainame: MERIT.EDU|
   ...
   (10) activation_date: 03-Oct-1986|
   ...
   (37) updated: 19990204-220001 autore|
   ...

> I sure wish NSI got rid of their lawyers and hired
> some techies.

:)

> I sure wish the alternate registries could display
> this kind of date data.

hear hear.

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