Time for my complaint of the day, I suppose.
Any hope of convincing Afilias to "clean up" their whois information? It's
informative, yes; it's just hard to sort through quickly.
Then again, maybe I just want to mold the world to fit my likes and
dislikes. :)
Mike
http://www.spyproductions.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Daminato" <chuck@tucows.com>
To: "David Sanchez" <dsanchez@veloxia.com>; <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:43 AM
Subject: RE: .info contact handles, etc.
> Apologies for the lateness in this reply....
>
> Currently there is no way to modify any contact for .info, we're working
> very hard to get this to you. We expect to have this functionality in the
> next month (or so) before .info transfers are starting.
>
> Unfortunately the phone number format for .info is non-negotiable. .info
> runs on a "thick" registry whereby they are responsible for a consolidated
> whois system. All the contact info MUST go through them, so it MUST
follow
> their rules. As a suggestion, when a customer brings up an older profile
> and wishes to then associate it with a .info domain, you can run his
current
> number(s) through a algorithm that will either attempt to convert it, or
at
> least notify him that the formatting must be altered.
>
> As an FYI - .uk, .tv, .ca, and now .biz/.info/.name (hrm...) all have
> "thick" registries whereby all the information is contained at the
registry
> so there is not (as with gTLDs) a distributed whois (which causes problems
> of its own - i.e. no standard whois output).
>
> Handles for .info will be handled automatically for now (just like they
are
> for .tv, which uses handles as well). We are working on a handle system
> (have been forever it seems); just trying to prioritize everything
correctly
> so you have the best service we can provide.
>
> Charles Daminato
> OpenSRS Product Manager
> Tucows Inc. - chuck@tucows.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org
> > [mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of David Sanchez
> > Sent: October 30, 2001 12:31 AM
> > To: discuss-list@opensrs.org
> > Subject: .info contact handles, etc.
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently contact handles for .info domain names are created on register
> > time, and at this moment there's no way to modify any contact
> > info for this
> > TLD, correct?
> >
> > But, when will be modification become available? but more important,
will
> > be any problem with this? I mean, let's say a customer which has 20 .com
> > and 2 .info in his profile, and he wants to change admin contact info on
> > all those domains, should he enter phone numbers in .info format to
work?
> > (+NN.XXXXXX).
> >
> > For me this is a bit problematic, we've developed some kind of contact
> > handles over OSRS system, and a returning customer can assign his
contact
> > hdl to a .info domain, and most probably he didn't enter a .info phone
> > format when he created the contact hdl.
> >
> > What I am probably going to do is to make a .info phone compatible
format
> > at register and modification time, with his country code and phone
> > (guessing phone parts); and in the future, ask for a more defined
> > phone in
> > contact creation time... (but who knows what will be others TLD
> > requirements). I've had similar problems with .tv registry not accepting
> > most of spanish special characters :-/
> >
> > BTW, .info and .biz registries don't seem to be a poor system
> > than the NSI
> > one? I like the model of having nameserver and registrar info at the
> > registry, and contact info at the registrar... why now duplicate contact
> > information, both at the registry and the registrar?
> >
> > On more thing... I've heard OpenSRS will be supporting contact handles
> > soon, will be compatible the old API?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David Sánchez
> > Veloxia Network,S.L.
> >
> > dsanchez@veloxia.com
> >
>
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