How to Obtain Free, Detailed .name WHOIS Information - UPDATE
Wired Magazine shows why Dot-Name’s whois policy is bad. The registry is based in the UK and they claim detailed whois violates UK privacy policy. While the UK government has never prosecuted a case against a registry based in the UK they still convinced ICANN that they should be allowed to bend the mandated whois service registries are required to run. So ICANN has allowed a special exception to the Dot-Name Registry. If you want detailed access to Dot-name whois be prepared to pay $2 for it if you go directly to the Registry. That will get you five passwords that are good for 24 hours. So I guess the UK privacy policy doesn’t apply if you make people pay for whois? I just don’t follow that argument.More here.
Either way, I want to let people know about a special back door! You can get detailed Dot-Name whois for free.
Note: Nice work, Jay! Thanks!
UPDATE: 17:15 PDT: So, this only works if the registrar queried in actually allows you to query their WHOIS services. I have been informed by several people that this does not always work because of this. - ferg
posted by Fergie @ 9/30/2007 04:53:00 PM
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