On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
Is there some kind of real-time WHOIS for .COM (and friends) which allows you to determine at least the corresponding registrar? This is helpful if you have to pull a delegation in order to mitigate a particular threat.
Near-real-time Whois for com/net is not available today but is coming: it will be in place by April 1, 2006, per the new .net registry agreement (http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/net/net-registry-agreement-01jul05.pdf, FWIW). Our registry customer service group reads mail sent to <info@verisign-grs.com> 24 hours per day, so if it's a real emergency you can always contact them or activate the bat signal with a posting on NANOG, which is also read here throughout the day. Matt -- Matt Larson <mlarson@verisign.com> VeriSign Naming and Directory Services