On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Mike Lewinski wrote:
Bruce Beckwith wrote:
You should deal with a registrar for this information, since that is one of the services they can provide for you.
Right, but in a case where my client inherited a domain from their predecessor, and has no idea who their registrar is, I seem to be in a catch-22.... This was my purpose in issuing a whois query to begin with- to learn which registrar they need to contact to make DNS authority changes.
OTOH, if you are suggesting that I should contact *my* registrar of choice to obtain this information... this seems more than a little ridiculous (to me at least, and I suspect OpenSRS is not going to appreciate getting a new support ticket every time I want to do a whois to figure out what other registrar has a domain that my client doesn't even intend to transfer to them).
Actually your registrar of choice should be able to easily get this information. However if your registrar is just doing things to keep prices as low as possible then they probably won't appreciate being asked to do this sort of thing (there is a reason to use the more expensive registrars).
Why should I {e-mail|call} to get what used to be available with a simple whois query?
Is there a standard for a whois query? If not you are kind of screwed. You have just been relying on things staying the same and been "lucky" so far that they haven't changed much.
What have we gained by making this process even more complicated? I have no beef with the use of Registrar IDs, I'm sure there are benefits to using them. But I do think that they are a poor substitute for what used to be human-readable information.
This I agree with. However for my .org domain and a couple of others I work with (that are at different registrars) all have the same outputs if you use "whois -h whois.pir.org domainname.org". Different registrars at the .com/.net level have different outputs so I can't see where this would be a difficult problem. bye, ken emery