Hello, On 27/01/2016 17:22, Greg Aaron wrote:
Once .COM and .NET (and .jobs) go thick, do registrars want to or need to operate WHOIS servers at all?
For think registries, the registrar Whois has always been a complete waste of resources, and I truly hope that ICANN will drop the requirement for it once all gTLDs have adopted the thick model.
So I see three options: 1. Registrar-based WHOIS will always be required, because of expiration date variances we've been discussing here, caused by auto-renewals and registrar payment policies. 2. Registrar-based WHOIS goes away. Registry WHOIS contains an Registry Expiration Date AND a Registrar Expiration Date field. The registrar populates and manages the latter. 3. Registrar-based WHOIS goes away. The WHOIS only shows the registry expiration date, and registrars and registrants have to communicate with each other about expirations and payments etc.
My personal preference would be 3, however (as said before) it seems that registrant confusion about a domain's fate can best be avoided by option 2. Best regards, Thomas -- TANGO REGISTRY SERVICES® Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH Thomas Corte Technologiepark Phone: +49 231 9703-222 Martin-Schmeisser-Weg 9 Fax: +49 231 9703-200 D-44227 Dortmund E-Mail: Thomas.Corte@knipp.de Germany