19 Feb
2003
19 Feb
'03
11:06 p.m.
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, John Ferriby wrote:
Does anyone know of a WHOIS archive? Netsol/SRS/Arin? Or for that matter, any coordinated efforts to capture this information?
There seem to be partial records going back to at least SRI-NIC, and maybe even further back when ISI/IANA handled registry duties itself. When there is a big enough dispute, you hear about the registries searching through archive tapes and even boxes of old papers. Sometimes they find the missing record, sometimes they don't. But there doesn't seem to be any centralized archive. Nor does it appear to be easy to access the records that do exist.