Re: [ga] Whonami Releases First World-Wide Real-Time Domain ...

[PacificRoot Hostmaster <idno@tallship.net>]

Danny,

thanks for the resource pointers, and I've checked whonami out.

Although the multi-lingual aspect seems to be something that will really
help out a bit in the coming months, whonami sorely lacks access to as
many TLDs as they report, based upon our research.

Might I suggest that people use instead the services of the whois root
which is located at http://www.whoisroot.com, or xwhois which is located
at http://www.xwhois.com

These services are much faster and can perform lookups on many more TLDs
than whonami, which we would be happy to work with if they contact us at
http://www.PacificRoot.com

for examples, please compare the responses to queries such as 

warren.family
tmh.ind
biz.biz
duvin.wine
atlantic.ocean
computers.biz

All of the aboe domains have associated websites as well and when it
comes to just the domains themselves there are many thousands more which
whonami isn't capable of returning results for.

If anyone would like to enlighten them as to their shortcomings we'll be
happy to lend a hand improving their services so that the whole Internet
community might find them to be a useful resource - like Xwhois and the
WhoisRoot have been for a very long time.

Even with regards to the alternative root, operated by the deprecated
ICANN legacy system folk, the whonami site demonstrates it is incomplete.
when a simple query on 'nic.biz' is entered. It not only fails to return
a correct response for ARNI as the legitimate registrant, but it also
doesn't return anything for the unauthorized colliding version of .BIZ
that ICANN is promoting.

With a little help from us I suspect that they could be truly operational
and ready for the Internet community at large to use. Right now it's not a
matter of their returned results being inaccurate, but rather, woefully
incomplete.

Kindest Regards,

Bradley D. Thornton
Chief Technology Officer
The PacificRoot / Joint Technologies, Ltd.
http://www.PacificRoot.com


On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

> In the news...
> 
> GREENBELT, Md., Aug 27, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Whonami, Ltd. announces the 
> public release of its Global Internet Name Search (GINS), the world's first 
> independent, natural-language, multi-lingual global domain name search and 
> registration resource.
> 
> Whonami GINS enables users to conduct domain name searches in nearly 500 
> top-level domains around the world with a single query. Users may register 
> available names in over 200 unrestricted domains through Whonami's affiliate 
> relationships with such prominent registrars as AllDomains, Register.Com 
> (RCOM), 1GlobalPlace, and VeriSign (VRSN).
> 
> Unlike many other global name searches, Whonami GINS is free to all Internet 
> users, operates in seconds - not minutes or days - and avoids the archaic, 
> inflexible user experience offered by other services.
> 
> In addition, Whonami GINS provides Internet Protocol address lookups via the 
> ARIN IP address database and facilitates international domain name searches 
> and/or registrations by offering English language translations of search 
> phrases.
> 
> The service also offers international users the ability to cut-and-paste 
> search requests from users' native alphabets, including Arabic, Simple 
> Chinese, Cyrillic, and Kanji, among others.
> 
> Users of Whonami's centralized domain search services include new Internet 
> customers searching for a desirable domain name and organizations wishing to 
> develop a list of all domain names they may own throughout the world.
> 
> Whonami GINS is particularly useful for identifying potential trademark 
> infringement or the misuse of corporate marks, and is a valuable tool for 
> network administrators searching for contact information when investigating 
> network problems.
> 
> "It's essential that a centralized and useful domain name information 
> resource be made available to the entire Internet community and not 
> exclusively to those that can afford it," notes Whonami President Bill 
> Feinbloom. "It's equally important for such a resource to remain independent 
> of conflicting business models, industry politics, and adapt easily as the 
> Internet evolves and grows."
> 
> Future plans include support for new ICANN top-level domain names (such as 
> .aero, .info, and .name) and the growing number of publicly-accepted 
> 'alternate' top-level domains (such as .mp3 and .xxx, among others.)
> 
> Whonami is committed to Internet privacy and does not archive or exploit its 
> server logs of customer queries or activities.
> 
> Whonami GINS is found at http://www.whonami.com/
> 
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Bradley D. Thornton
Chief Technology Officer
The PacificRoot/Joint Technologies Ltd.
http://www.PacificRoot.com
http://www.JointTech.com

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