.org whois

Wed Jan 29 18:36:45 UTC 2003

On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 12:53 Canada/Eastern, Tim Yocum wrote:

>
> on the 31st of December, 02, VeriSign was no longer the registry
> operator for .org.
>
> The new registrar is called "Public Interest Registry"
>
> One can only speculate why the whois servers have vanished,

whois.crsnic.net was the old whois server which reported data from the 
verisign thin registry for ORG. It still provides information for COM 
and NET, since those zones are still run by Verisign Registry.

whois.publicinterestregistry.net is the whois server being run by the 
PIR, who are running the new ORG registry. The output format of the PIR 
whois service is possibly slightly confusing; the PIR's plan is to 
transition ORG from a thin registry to a thick registry, and right now 
the whois server is showing responses which look like thick registry 
responses, based on thin registry data.

(if you knew this, and by "vanished" you meant something else, then 
apologies).

The response formatting looks weird to me: "Registrant Street1:Whois 
Server:whois.networksolutions.com"? What? Maybe beauty is in the eye of 
the beholder.

wrt data inaccuracies, the ISC's administrative addresses are not in 
Canada, and I guess the available.org people are having fun with all 
the spam from whois-harvesting spambots. Perhaps "NOT ACCURATE" should 
be substituted for "NOT AUTHORITATIVE".

Joe

>> [jabley at hyperion]% whois -h whois.publicinterestregistry.net isc.org
>> NOTICE: Access to .ORG WHOIS information is provided to assist 
>> persons in
>> determining the contents of a domain name registration record in the 
>> PIR
>> registry database. The data in this record is provided by Public 
>> Interest Registry
>> for informational purposes only, and PIR does not guarantee its
>> accuracy.  This service is intended only for query-based access.  You 
>> agree
>> that you will use this data only for lawful purposes and that, under 
>> no
>> circumstances will you use this data to: (a) allow, enable, or 
>> otherwise
>> support the transmission by e-mail, telephone, or facsimile of mass
>> unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations to entities 
>> other than
>> the data recipient's own existing customers; or (b) enable high 
>> volume,
>> automated, electronic processes that send queries or data to the 
>> systems of
>> Registry Operator or any ICANN-Accredited Registrar, except as 
>> reasonably
>> necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations.  
>> All
>> rights reserved. PIR reserves the right to modify these terms at any
>> time. By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy.
>>
>> Domain ID:D2338103-LROR
>> Domain Name:ISC.ORG
>> Created On:04-Apr-1994 04:00:00 UTC
>> Last Updated On:05-Mar-2002 02:24:11 UTC
>> Expiration Date:05-Apr-2004 04:00:00 UTC
>> Sponsoring Registrar:R63-LROR
>> Status:OK
>> Registrant ID:63-C
>> Registrant Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE
>> Registrant Street1:Whois Server:whois.networksolutions.com
>> Registrant Street2:Referral URL:www.networksolutions.com
>> Registrant City:N/A
>> Registrant Postal Code:N/A
>> Registrant Country:CA
>> Registrant Email:not at available.org
>> Admin ID:63-C
>> Admin Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE
>> Admin Street1:Whois Server:whois.networksolutions.com
>> Admin Street2:Referral URL:www.networksolutions.com
>> Admin City:N/A
>> Admin Postal Code:N/A
>> Admin Country:CA
>> Admin Email:not at available.org
>> Billing ID:63-C
>> Billing Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE
>> Billing Street1:Whois Server:whois.networksolutions.com
>> Billing Street2:Referral URL:www.networksolutions.com
>> Billing City:N/A
>> Billing Postal Code:N/A
>> Billing Country:CA
>> Billing Email:not at available.org
>> Tech ID:63-C
>> Tech Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE
>> Tech Street1:Whois Server:whois.networksolutions.com
>> Tech Street2:Referral URL:www.networksolutions.com
>> Tech City:N/A
>> Tech Postal Code:N/A
>> Tech Country:CA
>> Tech Email:not at available.org
>> Name Server:NS1.GNAC.COM
>> Name Server:NS-EXT.VIX.COM
>>
>>
>> [jabley at hyperion]%