RE: Alternatives (was Re: whois broke again?)

NSI arguably has the rights to the existing whois database but by no means does that give them any control over any other listing of names and contact information. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Rodney Joffe Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 12:19 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Alternatives (was Re: whois broke again?) William Allen Simpson wrote:

Some private messages have said that NSI claims the whois contact information is now their "property".

Not only. NSI has said publicly that this is the case. As does the data they return with each whois result :-)