no whois info ?

Thu Dec 9 15:55:40 UTC 2004

At 11:17 AM 09/12/2004, william(at)elan.net wrote:

>Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10
>minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz)

Yes, I was aware of that.

>while whois data
>is still updated once or twice a day.

I (wrongly) assumed that the initial whois data would be immediately there 
to be seen at registration time....

>That means if spammer registers new
>domain he'll be able to use it immediatly and it'll not yet show up in
>whois (and so not be immediatly identifiable to spam reporting tools) -
>and spammers are in fact using this "feature" more and more!

What a lovely well thought out feature....

         ---Mike 