July 26, 2004
5:19 p.m.
Has anyone considered another alternative: depositing the whois at a common third party across all ICANN-contracted TLDs? Not the registries and not the registrars?
Paul, The idea has occured to me. It gets the registry's hands off the IPC-mandated data, and adds to the 3rd-party-escrows-or-drop-pools-or-validates-or-... possibilities, which I think is desirable. We already see whois clients with scoped expertise about the tld population, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't also see whois servers with scoped authority about the gtld names. Eric