NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois

Thu Sep 3 18:53:21 UTC 1998

On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:24:02AM -0400, David H. Holtzman wrote:
> I'd like to add some amplifying information :
> 
> Two companies are responsible for over 30% of the hits coming into Whois.
> They are not major ISPs.  This is almost three times as much as ALL AOL
> users combined.  What we are talking about here is abuse of a needed
> service and as such should not be confused with peripheral business issues.

Any chance you'll tell us who they are so that we can block 'em, as they're
undoubtedly going to try to spam us?

> Sr VP Engineering, Network Solutions
> dholtz at internic.net

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