Port 43 Whois Announcement

Tue Nov 16 22:23:47 UTC 1999

This isn't nonsense. Its a necessary part of having multiple registrars. This whois is used to avoid namespace collisions between registrars, as well as find the appropriate registrar for a domain. 

My question (should just test I suppose) is if the rwhois client will automatically query the delegated whois server for the rest of the information. Now that might be useful...

		--Dean

Around 03:40 PM 11/16/1999 -0500, rumor has it that William Allen Simpson said:
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>What nonsense is this? 
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>The registrant and contact information should be in the same 
>records as the name servers.  After all, that's why we called 
>it "whois", not something else.  We want the "who" part, so that 
>we can contact them!
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>Please quote the exact language in the MoU that describes removing 
>the "who" from whois?
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>"Newell, Tom" wrote:
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>> An FYI of an operational nature.......
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>> --Tom
>> Director of gTLD Programs
>> NSI Registry
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>> ##########################################
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>> Redirecting Port 43 Whois
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>> The following change is being made to comply with the recently
>> negotiated and signed agreements between the U.S. Department of
>> Commerce, ICANN, and NSI.
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>> Effective December 1, 1999 Network Solutions will be redirecting
>> port 43 (rs.internic.net) Whois from the NSI Registrar Whois to
>> the NSI Registry Whois.   The NSI Registry Whois can currently be
>> found at whois.nsiregistry.net.  After this occurs, port 43 Whois
>> will show the following information: domain name, registrar, Whois
>> server, registrar referral URL and the names of the name servers
>> associated with the domain.  To obtain registrant and domain name
>> contact information, users will need to refer to the Whois service
>> provided by the registrar for the domain name.
>> 
>> Send questions or comments to whois at nsiregistry.net.
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>WSimpson at UMich.edu
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