Re[2]: FYI Re: [registrars] NSI Whois Filtering...

From: William X. Walsh (william@userfriendly.com)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 02:32:31 EDT


Hello Dave,

Thursday, August 02, 2001, 9:54:57 PM, Dave Warren wrote:

>> I doubt that youd be able to build a useful whois client into the API
> simply
>> because the amount and type of information various registrars give out is
>> often completely different from registrar to registrar.

> You would be able to build a WHOIS that checks against the Verisign registry
> WHOIS database, although not recursively. Of course, it could just return
> the text recursively, as a service for RSPs.

But the registry doesn't store ANY registrant data at all, just a
pointer to the registrar and the nameserver data, nothing about the
registrant at all.

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William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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