What happened to whois?
Paul B. Brown
pbrown at btechnet.com
Tue Feb 8 20:42:07 UTC 2000
> ..com, .net, and .org domains are no longer registered by just one nic.
>
> There is one central nic to control the basics like root servers however
> they do not maintain owner and contact info for domains.
>
> When you query a whois it use the default whois server that the program was
> compiled with whois.internic.net
>
> Which only gives you the info that the internic keeps track of. (The basics)
>
> When you query whois.networksolutions.com you get the full output because
> network soultions registered and is maintaining the domain.
>
> Please read more about this at http://www.internic.net/faq.html
>
Paul,
Thanks for the info. Enjoy your day! :-)
Paul
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