Derek Balling wrote:
True, that's what his statement appears to say, however, who is to define "abuse" of the whois service?
As an example, a company I worked for a while back wanted to generate, on their statistics reports for their customers' web sites, who each domain was who was hitting their page, and who it belonged to (e.g. someone
Interesting point and an interesting application. I never thought of doing that. I guess I just always think in terms of domain names. You mean, there's a world outside of the Internet? =) Since we're on the topic, what *is* the process for getting access to the whois DB? Is this even possible at this day and age? Isn't there already a process in place to get full copies of the root zone files? Couldn't this be extended to the whois data? Heck, it's just another contract.... -- Michael L. Barrow * <mlbarrow@eni.net> * Network Engineer Epoch Internet * DSL Engineering * (949) 399-8413