Why Is Internic Restricting WHOIS Queries? 8
Ötti asks: "I just noticed that InterNIC
started to restrict access to its WHOIS database. That puts sites
like Allwhois into an awkward situation, since they cannot provide lookups anymore. That might sound like a minor problem to those of you located in the U.S., but in other parts of the world it is very convenient to have a unified interface to all registrars in the world. And once again it raises the ultimate questions: Who owns the informations on domain name holders? Why is it not publicly accessible and how can organizations like ICANN help to improve matters?"
InterNIC Restrictions? (Score:1)
Whois Server Version 1.1
Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: DOMAIN-NAME.COM
.COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS1.DNS.COM
Name Server: NS2.DNS.COM
Updated Date: 26-jan-2000
>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 8 Jul 00 04:46:44 EDT
The Registry database contains ONLY
Registrars.
Re:InterNIC Restrictions? (Score:1)
whois -h whois.networksolutions.com domainname
and it will give detailed info.
fwhois on redhat doesn't support it, not sure about other distros
Re:InterNIC Restrictions? (Score:1)
Re:InterNIC Restrictions? (Score:1)
whois slashdot.org@whois.networksolutions.com
They're screwing up what they got, too (Score:1)
I reccomend BW Whois [bw.org] for those who want a whois client that functions like it's supposed to. Nice little perl script that even knows how to strip NSI's "drop dead before using this data" disclaimers.
Re:InterNIC Restrictions? -- Not quite, FleaBSDood (Score:1)
:~$ fwhois
usage: fwhois user[@]
:~$
blah.
You wanna know why? (Score:2)
Retarded, one-armed monkeys, I tell you. Only someting that stupid could come up with the little disclaimer they put before "whois" output.
- A.P.
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Social Engineering (Score:1)