Re: Transfering a domain

[Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 davidk@ISI.EDU wrote:

> most people. Of course, to be honest, I would not violently oppose a very
> light weight whois service that does nothing but giving back the
> registered information in the repository (which should only include DNS
> configuration data & public keys) with the domain name as the only
> possible key. 

Note that a combination of the lightweight whois service and a DNS zone
transfer can provide anyone with a complete copy of the database. And the
machine parseable daily gazette that I suggested can provide a transaction
stream to keep a copy of the database up to date. 

Thus, anyone is at liberty to maintain a copy of the database and provide
more complex search and query abilities with it, either publicly or for a
fee. I would expect that substantially all the registrars would provide
such a service and I would also expect there to be free, publicly
available tools to create and maintain such databases.

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