com/net Whois format change notice

Fri Mar 24 16:03:20 UTC 2006

http://registrar.verisign-grs.com/whois/
They're not providing that information currently.
If you want that data, you need to query the listed WHOIS server of the 
registrar.
The only change is the addition of EPP status.

Malcolm Staudinger
Abuse Department
Dotster, Inc.

Jon Lewis wrote:

>
> 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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