At 22/11/2011 11:34 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

On 22 November 2011 11:15, Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de> wrote:

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In iks.lists.icann.at-large, you wrote:

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On 22 November 2011 03:25, Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de> wrote:

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No, thin WHOIS provides you the chain of responsibility down to the reseller which has the real contract with the domain owner.

The reseller is merely the provider of the domain. There are very few industries I can think of in which the reseller is expected to maintain publicly-accessible information on the owner.

Just to be clear, in the current thin Whois model, it is the Registrar that maintains the data about the registrant, not the reseller (if there is one). Alan