Re: Verisign vs ICANN

[Kee Hinckley <nazgul () somewhere com>]

At 8:37 PM +0100 9/20/03, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> Okay, to Internet "Experts", things are broken - their domain checking scripts
> no longer return "domain available" (why not just check whois.internic.net?).

To quote Verisign, although this is true of all other whois providers:
> TERMS OF USE: You are not authorized to access or query our Whois
> database through the use of electronic processes that are high-volume and
> automated except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or
> modify existing registrations; the Data in VeriSign Global Registry

Never mind that there isn't a standard format for the returned 
information between providers.

The whois database is not a replacement for a DNS query.
--
Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.