It is interesting to note that the note they show comes from our own whois
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 bill@daze.net
> Sent: June 24, 2002 1:23 PM
> To: David Delbridge
> Cc: discuss-list@opensrs.org
> Subject: Re: 3rd-Party Whois Issue
>
>
> > Can anybody explain to me why the Allwhois service
> > (http://www.allwhois.com) returns the following message for all of our
> > OpenSRS-registered domains?
>
> I would suggest you ask Allwhois the question as most of us have no idea
> how their service works.
>
> A quick glance shows that Allwhois is the whois service od a registrar
> named Alldomains.com. This probably explains why they don't list OpenSRS
> domains. OpenSRS domains are not registered through
> Alldomains.com. OpenSRS is a different competing registrar of Alldomains.
>
> > "NOTE: THE WHOIS DATABASE IS A CONTACT DATABASE ONLY. LACK OF A DOMAIN
> > RECORD DOES NOT SIGNIFY DOMAIN AVAILABILITY."
>
> At least they got the disclaimer right...
>
> I would also add that you shouldn't expect one registrar's whois to show
> accurate information for another registrar's customers.
>
>
>
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