| Jeff Abrahamson on Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:50:31 -0500 |
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:29:13PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:57:44PM -0500, Samantha S. Ollinger wrote: > > When I registered my .com I was asked questions about the administrative > > contact, etc which is usually revealed in the whois lookup. > > > > However a whois on mediaresearch.org doesn't show any information from my > > debian box: > > ------------------------------------------- > > Whois Server Version 1.3 > > > > Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered > > with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net > > for detailed information. > > > > No match for "MEDIARESEARCH.ORG". > > Yes, something weird is going on with .org queries. I noticed the same > thing yesterday. So far, I've not had problems on any .com, .net, or > .int queries, but haven't gotten any .org queries to work. Also debian > here, but I just tried two queries on a redhat box and got the same > results. This may explain it: https://www.snapnames.com/nsi/dot_org.jsp?aff=49&dom=bcdv.org As of January 25, 2003, central registry supervision of domain names ending in ORG was transferred from VeriSign to Public Interest Registry (PIR). PIR has elected to suspend deletions of expired ORG names for three to four months while it considers deletion policies. Please be aware that this may affect the timing of the deletion of any non-renewed ORG name, as well as the effectiveness of your back-order subscription. If, when deletions are resumed, our service is not able to acquire deleting ORG names, you of course will be welcome to exchange your subscription for a COM or NET domain name. We will continue to work with PIR to learn more about their intentions regarding deleting ORG names and will forward information as it is available. If you have questions, please contact our support group at support@snapnames.com or at 1-800-385-4075. The Public Interest Registry is http://www.pir.org/. They have a faq that includes this interesting item: 6. Does my registrar have to become accredited with PIR? Yes. All registrars who wish to make any transactions with the new .ORG registry must successfully complete a technical certification, as well as other requirements, such as signing the registry-registrar contract specified by ICANN. Completing the technical certification will help ensure that the registrar's system will function properly. They propose certain improvements now that they are in charge. (I guess they have to make it sound good.) One of them sounds scary: All WHOIS data for .ORG domain names will eventually be centralized into a single, authoritative database. (Registration data currently resides in more than 100 separate, publicly accessible registrar databases.) This will make it easier for you to look up the owner of a domain name. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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