On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:03:31AM +0100, Elmar K. Bins wrote:
lionel@mamane.lu (Lionel Elie Mamane) wrote:
A nonprofit firm in Frankfurt, Denic eG, which manages Germany's eight million registered .de domain names, has also indicated that it is planning to bid.
For what it is worth, some consider the .de whois server broken; see below. Let's note that the new RFC (3912) doesn't mention the "help methodology" anymore.
And some call this not broken but necessary. I can explain off-list, if you like.
$ telnet whois.denic.de whois Trying 81.91.162.7... Connected to whois.denic.de. Escape character is '^]'. ? domain: ? status: invalid
Which is defined in what RfC?
RFC 954, which has recently (September 2004) been obsoleted by RFC 3912, which doesn't mention it anymore. -- Lionel