Re: Transfering a domain

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Michael,

Michael Dillon wrote:
> 
> 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.

  This is a good idea.  But I am not sure it is comprehensive enough.
> 
> 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.

  Well FREE,  I don't know about that.  Possibly a Java applet to access
creat and maintain the db.  If that is someting like you had in mind
from
a page, than fine.

Regards,
-- 
Jeffrey A. Williams
DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
Information Eng. Group. 
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