Does anyone know of a WHOIS archive? Netsol/SRS/Arin? Or for that matter, any coordinated efforts to capture this information? -- John Ferriby - PGP Key: www.ferriby.com/pgpkey Fingerprint: 3B78 10AF A1B2 20D0 A5D9 983F 96FF D5BB CF11 BA97 If you see a smime.p7s attachment it is only a digital signature.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: MD5 Hello John, Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 10:30:36 PM, you wrote: JF> Does anyone know of a WHOIS archive? Netsol/SRS/Arin? Or for JF> that matter, any coordinated efforts to capture this information? This is a question that has been asked repeatedly, on many mailing lists, and the answer is always the same: Not as far as anyone knows. Verisign may have one, but it is not publicly available, and it would only be for the CNO TLDs. Other registries may keep historical data, but again none of it is publicly available. I have not seen any effort to collect such data, the closest thing would be http://www.archive.org/ but of course the web is not the Internet, and you may need different data. Hope this helps. allan - -- Allan Liska allan@allan.org http://www.allan.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAPlRQeykg6TAvIBeFAQGzqwP+KocKaZlY1kSProfgLscAV4QJydbZVvRt k3cbI4fDIn5NclNzsJIL6/+DtXIlL/zV6fdGXn/V0O5UW92AqOrrphQzhJXS24no gbxearGuCTm3kWLwVa3cG50YpKIxcnbGGiQ1dq8/MG0/3/wa8tbPUtTYZVODNgLX p4xv6MGED6E= =l2ZN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, John Ferriby wrote:
Does anyone know of a WHOIS archive? Netsol/SRS/Arin? Or for that matter, any coordinated efforts to capture this information?
There seem to be partial records going back to at least SRI-NIC, and maybe even further back when ISI/IANA handled registry duties itself. When there is a big enough dispute, you hear about the registries searching through archive tapes and even boxes of old papers. Sometimes they find the missing record, sometimes they don't. But there doesn't seem to be any centralized archive. Nor does it appear to be easy to access the records that do exist.
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