Petition for provision of WHOIS server for .nz
Its been several years since requests commenced for an industry standard WHOIS server providing public access to .nz registry data. We still do not have one. 2day.com is now preparing a petition to present to ISOCNZ requesting it direct the registry company to have an official .nz WHOIS server up and operating within 60 days. Internet providers and other interested organisations who are interested in signing such a petition are invited to write to me privately to obtain a copy of the document to sign and return to us for compilation. Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2DAY INTERNET LIMITED -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Peter Mott wrote:
Its been several years since requests commenced for an industry standard WHOIS server providing public access to .nz registry data.
We still do not have one.
There's an unofficial one at patho.gen.nz AB --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
Its been several years since requests commenced for an industry standard WHOIS server providing public access to .nz registry data.
We still do not have one.
There's an unofficial one at patho.gen.nz
That just grabs information using HTTP requests from domainz.waikato.ac.nz With respect, I dont wish to rely on Joes site to run my business. ISOCNZ are getting thousands of dollars of revenues from us. We expect more. Much more Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2DAY INTERNET LIMITED -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Peter Mott wrote:
There's an unofficial one at patho.gen.nz
That just grabs information using HTTP requests from domainz.waikato.ac.nz
Aye.
With respect, I dont wish to rely on Joes site to run my business. ISOCNZ are getting thousands of dollars of revenues from us. We expect more. Much more
Agreed. The fact that someone got peeved enough to hack up something to do the job because DOMAINZ/ISOCNZ can't be bothered says much. AB --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04:12:26PM +1200, Alan Brown wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Peter Mott wrote:
Its been several years since requests commenced for an industry standard WHOIS server providing public access to .nz registry data.
We still do not have one.
There's an unofficial one at patho.gen.nz
Which hasn't been working for a while, since I have never quite got around to installing gawk on tardis :( Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Joe Abley wrote:
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 04:12:26PM +1200, Alan Brown wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Peter Mott wrote:
Its been several years since requests commenced for an industry standard WHOIS server providing public access to .nz registry data.
We still do not have one.
There's an unofficial one at patho.gen.nz
Which hasn't been working for a while, since I have never quite got around to installing gawk on tardis :(
I put a slightly modified version of the script on whau.its.vuw.ac.nz some time ago. It can be queried from anywhere, but you should be aware that the IP address of any querying machine is logged - I like to know who's accessing my system. Regards Richard ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Stevenson Systems Engineer Information Technology Services Victoria University of Wellington I've been bitten at least as badly. I poured 7 years into helping make SunOS 4.x a great operating system only to have it ripped away and replaced with that Solaris thing. -- Larry McVoy, in linux-kernel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 10:07:40AM +1200, Peter Mott wrote:
Its been several years since requests commenced for an industry standard WHOIS server providing public access to .nz registry data.
For this to be truly useful and effective, this requires more than new interface to the existing data -- for `whois' type data to be useful, you really need some kind of NIC handle system -- something which the current system(s) are not well suited towards.
2day.com is now preparing a petition to present to ISOCNZ requesting it direct the registry company to have an official .nz WHOIS server up and operating within 60 days.
For the reason I mention above, I don't think 60 days is a reasonable time frame... how long -- I don't know, but ~2 months seems a little optimistic even if you assume that the domain holder details are correct (many of them are not, and many domain holders don't really know what a domain is more or less the important of reliable consistent information). -cw --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
standard WHOIS server providing public access to .nz registry data.
For this to be truly useful and effective, this requires more than new interface to the existing data -- for `whois' type data to be useful, you really need some kind of NIC handle system -- something which the current system(s) are not well suited towards.
My thinking was to get what could be done with ease going first, and come back to improvements once we have a basic WHOIS running
For the reason I mention above, I don't think 60 days is a reasonable time frame...
Lets not look for opportunities to delay action. A basic RFC compliant WHOIS server could be up in running in no time at all. In its initial stage, it only needs to answer a domain name query with the following data:- Registrant name and address Admin, tech contact details Name servers Billing information is not required Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2DAY INTERNET LIMITED -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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Alan Brown -
Chris Wedgwood -
Joe Abley -
Peter Mott -
Richard Stevenson