Real-time WHOIS for .COM

Wed Aug 10 20:39:46 UTC 2005

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:33:16PM +0000, abuse at dopiaza.cabal.org.uk wrote:
> 
> Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at center.osis.gov> wrote:
> >  william(at)elan.net wrote:
> [...]
> >> Best you can get is to do query using whois.completewhois.com since
> >> by default our server will do both whois query to internic and dns
> >> query to find current deligated dns servers. ...
> 
> > Fedora core test page?
> > Ah - you may have meant to say <URL: http://www.completewhois.com/>.
> 
> No. I'm almost certain that he really did mean whois.completewhois.com
> and that whistling sound overhead is you missing the point.
> 
> Write out 100 times: "the Internet and the web are not the same
> thing".

Good heavens, I'm becoming one of Them!  You're quite right, I've said
exactly that myself, too many times.  My only defense is that 'whois'
does not work from where I'm sitting, and the Web interface was needed.
[But a simple 'ssh' would have fixed that.]

-- 
Joe Yao
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