> I always thought that whois was the main record keeper. Someone could
> go there and get contact info, nameserver etc for any domain name.
> Doesn't seem to be the case with OpenSRS. Now it does show on the
> opensrs whois, which I guess is different than the whois that 99.99%
> of the net world is familiar with.
This is how ICANN designed it folks. Each registrar must supply their own
whois database of domain contacts. The NSI Registry whois (referred to
above as the whois that 99.99% of the net word is familiar with) only
provides the domain name, registrar of record and the name servers for the
domain. The NSI Registry whois (i.e. whois.nsiregistry.net or
whois.internic.net) does not maintain contact information for domain names.
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