On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 12:53 Canada/Eastern, Tim Yocum wrote:
on the 31st of December, 02, VeriSign was no longer the registry operator for .org.
The new registrar is called "Public Interest Registry"
One can only speculate why the whois servers have vanished,
whois.crsnic.net was the old whois server which reported data from the verisign thin registry for ORG. It still provides information for COM and NET, since those zones are still run by Verisign Registry. whois.publicinterestregistry.net is the whois server being run by the PIR, who are running the new ORG registry. The output format of the PIR whois service is possibly slightly confusing; the PIR's plan is to transition ORG from a thin registry to a thick registry, and right now the whois server is showing responses which look like thick registry responses, based on thin registry data. (if you knew this, and by "vanished" you meant something else, then apologies). The response formatting looks weird to me: "Registrant Street1:Whois Server:whois.networksolutions.com"? What? Maybe beauty is in the eye of the beholder. wrt data inaccuracies, the ISC's administrative addresses are not in Canada, and I guess the available.org people are having fun with all the spam from whois-harvesting spambots. Perhaps "NOT ACCURATE" should be substituted for "NOT AUTHORITATIVE". Joe
[jabley@hyperion]% whois -h whois.publicinterestregistry.net isc.org NOTICE: Access to .ORG WHOIS information is provided to assist persons in determining the contents of a domain name registration record in the PIR registry database. The data in this record is provided by Public Interest Registry for informational purposes only, and PIR does not guarantee its accuracy. This service is intended only for query-based access. You agree that you will use this data only for lawful purposes and that, under no circumstances will you use this data to: (a) allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission by e-mail, telephone, or facsimile of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations to entities other than the data recipient's own existing customers; or (b) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes that send queries or data to the systems of Registry Operator or any ICANN-Accredited Registrar, except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations. All rights reserved. PIR reserves the right to modify these terms at any time. By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy.
Domain ID:D2338103-LROR Domain Name:ISC.ORG Created On:04-Apr-1994 04:00:00 UTC Last Updated On:05-Mar-2002 02:24:11 UTC Expiration Date:05-Apr-2004 04:00:00 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:R63-LROR Status:OK Registrant ID:63-C Registrant Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE Registrant Street1:Whois Server:whois.networksolutions.com Registrant Street2:Referral URL:www.networksolutions.com Registrant City:N/A Registrant Postal Code:N/A Registrant Country:CA Registrant Email:not@available.org Admin ID:63-C Admin Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE Admin Street1:Whois Server:whois.networksolutions.com Admin Street2:Referral URL:www.networksolutions.com Admin City:N/A Admin Postal Code:N/A Admin Country:CA Admin Email:not@available.org Billing ID:63-C Billing Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE Billing Street1:Whois Server:whois.networksolutions.com Billing Street2:Referral URL:www.networksolutions.com Billing City:N/A Billing Postal Code:N/A Billing Country:CA Billing Email:not@available.org Tech ID:63-C Tech Name:CONTACT NOT AUTHORITATIVE Tech Street1:Whois Server:whois.networksolutions.com Tech Street2:Referral URL:www.networksolutions.com Tech City:N/A Tech Postal Code:N/A Tech Country:CA Tech Email:not@available.org Name Server:NS1.GNAC.COM Name Server:NS-EXT.VIX.COM
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