com/net Whois format change notice

Fri Mar 24 15:56:56 UTC 2006

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Matt Larson wrote:

>
> On March 30, VeriSign will upgrade its Whois service for .com and
> .net, which will now reflect registration activity in the .com and
> .net registry databases in near real-time.  We are announcing this
> upgrade because the Whois output format will change slightly at the
> same time and we want to give notice to anyone who may have to update
> processes that parse this output.

Slightly?

> A sample of the revised output is included at the end of this message.
>
>   Domain Name: VERISIGN.COM
>   Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
>   Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
>   Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
>   Name Server: NS1.CRSNIC.NET
>   Name Server: GOLDENGATE-W2-INF6.VERISIGN.NET
>   Name Server: BAY-W1-INF5.VERISIGN.NET
>   Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
>   EPP Status: clientDeleteProhibited
>   EPP Status: clientUpdateProhibited
>   EPP Status: clientTransferProhibited
>   Updated Date: 19-Nov-2004
>   Creation Date: 02-Jun-1995
>   Expiration Date: 01-Jun-2012

No more Registrant, POCs, or physical address information?

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