On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:16:25PM -0800, davidb@panix.com wrote:
P.S.
can anyone comment on the reputations of the .net registry administration contenders (no need to comment on verisign)?
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. -------- Begin Quote -------- The .DE whois server is broken. I should be able to telnet to the WHOIS server on the whois port, send it a domain, and get results. If I do that, I get: $ telnet whois.denic.de whois Trying 81.91.162.7... Connected to whois.denic.de. Escape character is '^]'. denic.de domain: denic.de status: connect Connection closed by foreign host. The only way to get "real" data out of the .DE whois server is to use cryptic options: $ telnet whois.denic.de whois Trying 81.91.162.7... Connected to whois.denic.de. Escape character is '^]'. -T dn,ace -C US-ASCII denic.de % Copyright (c)2004 by DENIC % Version: 1.00.0 % % Restricted rights. [.... snip ....] Further, these options are not documented anywhere, because the usual "help" methodology, as documented by the RFC, doesn't work: $ telnet whois.denic.de whois Trying 81.91.162.7... Connected to whois.denic.de. Escape character is '^]'. ? domain: ? status: invalid Connection closed by foreign host. -- Lionel Elie Mamane