True - but not the 5000/day, just the amount you can do at a time. Be
nice, we have to service whois to an entire planet. It's a tough job ;)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
chuck@tucows.com
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Robert Rivers wrote:
>
> Please note that OpenSRS also limits the number of whois connections and
> requests so everyone is still restricted.
>
> Robert Rivers
> Technical Operations
>
> Matt Prigge wrote:
> >
> > > Ross, wouldn't it be a GREAT idea to offer resellers a whois proxy though
> > > the OpenSRS API ? ;)
> >
> > Dont look now, but they already do. Well. Not through the API, but a proxy
> > nonetheless. Their Whois server is recursive. Any external lookups it does
> > would theoretically originate from its non-encumbered IP block.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Correct me if im wrong on this one.
> >
> > - Matt
>
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