At 11:59 AM 9/2/98 -0500, Andy Walden wrote:
Was this company "an abuser" because they wanted to do lookups of a useful nature? (And yes, they put in caching and such so they wouldn't be querying
Yes. Thats not the intent of the whois database in my opinion. Marketing and general greed causes the most problems on the Internet and generates the most instances of someone trying to exploit something for the almighty dollar.
I guess I would tend to disagree. The whois database is there so that the Internet users - be they marketing types or technical types - can obtain information about a domain name. I might not be interested in that aspect of it MYSELF (for me, it is generally the technical contact I am looking for, or rarely the admin contact), but for others it is the company name. What makes their use "WRONG" and mine "RIGHT"? D