FW: .org whois - a clarification

["Bruce Beckwith" <bbeckwith () pir org>]

The following comment was made privately, yet since it may be of
interest to others, I am posting the question and noting that we have
gone ahead and done this.

Regards,

Bruce Beckwith
Public Interest Registry


> There has been some confusion about the naming of the new .org whois
for
> port 43 service.  As noted now on our web site, and also in other
posts,
> it can be found at:
>
> whois.publicinterestregistry.net

why not also

  whois.pir.org

for those of us who actually type this stuff on command lines? Any
chance 
of a CNAME? Sure would be nice.