Sorry I'm just getting around to responding to this. I meant to earlier but
didn't have the time. Now some confused domain registrants are seeing to it
that I make the time.
3.3.1.3 *is not* a requirement for WHOIS. As the quote below shows, the
identity of the registrar can be provided through the registrar's *website*.
In other words it is *optional* in the whois output as long as the
tucows.com/opensrs website continues to display that it is TUCOWS.
Anyway, we now have domain registrants sending messages thinking their
domains have been stolen since they now see "Registrar of Record: TUCOWS,
INC." in the WHOIS output. We have to waste our time explaining it to them
even though they should already know...
> From: Charles Daminato
> Sent: May 29, 2002 12:24 PM
>
> Registrar of Record is by ICANN requirement:
>
> http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm#3.3
>
> Specifically line item 3.3.1.3:
>
> 3.3.1.3 The identity of Registrar (which may be provided through
> Registrar's website);
>
> As for the comma, afaik that was always there *hrm....*
>
> Charles Daminato
> OpenSRS Product Manager
> Tucows Inc. - chuck@tucows.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Hicks
> > Sent: May 29, 2002 3:01 PM
> >
> > I may have missed it, but were the whois changes announced? It
> looks like
> > it's putting a comma between state and zip and it added "Registrar of
> > Record: TUCOWS, INC.". What's the point to either of those things?
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