Re: Contact and registrat info (was Anti Capitalism)

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Paul Svensson wrote:

> >this info for an entire zone delegation, but, being hierarchical, how
> >do the records for 3LD & 4LDs get recorded by a central whois? These
> >host records are outside the control of a central whois authority.
> 
> Why should anything about 3rd or 4rth level domains be available by whois
> from a TLD registrar ?  All that's needed is the information about the
> 2LDs registered, and that's flat.

At some point in the DNS hierarchy an entity gains total control over the
domain delegated to them. Beyond that point, whois information doesn't
need to be publicly available since it is sufficient to contact the people
who have total control over a domain. So, just because Okanagan University
College has a 3LD okanagan.bc.ca doesn't mean that their whois information
should be private.

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