NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois

Wed Sep 2 15:10:56 UTC 1998

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Christopher K. Phillips wrote:

> I may be wrong but aren't the fees that Network Solutions is charging for
> domain name registration "supposed" to cover the costs of providing WHOIS
> service for those domains? Is this just another attempt to nickel and dime
> everyone to death on some sort of new usage charge for WHOIS service?

Could be me - but it kind of sounded like they were blocking abusers -
like address harvesters - single sites with thousands of requests in a
short period of time - that can't trully be labled a bad thing now can it?

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