whois database issue

whois database issue

Post by John Nav » Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:00:00



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Quote:>If the government now reverses itself then it better explain to me why it
>refused my request.  I'd suggest further that the government's reversal
>would be so egregious an act that it could possibly trigger the statutory
>penalties of the Privacy Act, an amount which could easily cumulate to
>several billions of dollars of damages against NTIA.

ROTFL.

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whois database issue

Post by Richard J. Sext » Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:00:00




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>>If the government now reverses itself then it better explain to me why it
>>refused my request.  I'd suggest further that the government's reversal
>>would be so egregious an act that it could possibly trigger the statutory
>>penalties of the Privacy Act, an amount which could easily cumulate to
>>several billions of dollars of damages against NTIA.

>ROTFL.

I didn't write the above, Karl Augbach did; he's a lawyer at Cicso
who has been making a big deal out of this for years and understand
it better than almost anybody. You may laugh at it if you want
but in the absence of a conflicting legal opinion, it doesn't
really mean a whole lot.

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1. Whois database access or VB programmatic access to Whois?

Hello,

I posted a series of questions regarding the COM.ZONE (10/12/99 -
"Questions re: COM.ZONE - does anyone understand this file".

Thanks to those who answered, especially Barry Margolin.  I'm slowly
getting a better understanding of how this all comes together (or
doesn't).

As I stated in the earlier message, I am analyzing domain names for a
project.  I found that the COM.ZONE database (gotten from NSI) is
incomplete because it only lists domain names that are up-to-date.
However, if a name is not found in COM.ZONE, that doesn't mean that
the name is available - because it still might be found in the Whois
database.  Example:  00C.COM ("zero" "zero "c") is not in the COM.ZONE
file, but is found in a whois search.

New questions:

        Does anyone know of a way to download the whois database?  I
had to sign all kinds of stupid forms (in my opinion) so that NSI
would let me have access to the COM.ZONE.

        So how do I get to download the whois data?

If that's not possible, would anyone know of a method for a Visual
Basic programmer to write code to do a query of the Whois database?

In a perfect world it would look something like this:

        Function WhoisResult (DomainName as String) as String

                WhoisResult = GetWhoisData (DomainName)

        end function

Thanks in advance for any assistance/guidance.

Sincerely,


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