Re: InterNIC No Longer Reveals Contact Info

From: James Santagata <jms_at_tribalnoise.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:25:50 -0500 (CDT)

RICK BRUNER WROTE:
>I just noticed that Network Solutions, the company that
>administer's the InterNIC's domain name registry, recently
>changed its system again (they've been mucking around with
>it frequently recently) so that when you search on a domain
>name that is already taken, it no longer provides you the
>name and contact info of the party that has registered the
>domain.

This information is still available for the .com, .edu and
.org TLDs. You can also search by Web address, NIC handle,
host IP, or lastname, firstname.

>I suspect they've done this due to spammers who troll the
>NIC dB for email addresses (I know that the volume of spam
>I've received went up markedly when I started registering
>various domains).

NSI has made restrictions as to the total number of records
that will be returned per query and the delay between those
record requests.

>Anyone have any insights into this? Any domain junkies out
>there yet figured out how to circumvent Network Solutions'
>latest customer unfriendly move?

The DN records are accessible at:
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois

You may notice that they have made available the Domain Name
creation dates again (which is very valuable). They have
also added the following statement that appears with each
record request:

"You agree that you will not reproduce, sell, transfer, or
modify any of the data presented in response to your search
request, or use of any such data for commercial purpose,
without the prior express written permission of Network
Solutions."

Best regards,

James Santagata
TribalNoise!
Internet Marketing Strategists
Sunnyvale, California

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