RE: [registrars] Fw: [nc-whois] useful information/link

["Beckwith, Bruce" <bbeckwith@verisign.com>]

Bhavin,

Though I appreciate the question, and I understand why it is of so much
interest to our competitors, I am not sure why it is necessary for us, or
any other company that is legitimately competing in the domain name
registration business, to describe how they perform their business
processes.  We view this as company confidential information.

Should we be not adhering to the terms and conditions of a contract, or have
legitimate regulatory issues, we will deal with those concerns with the
parties involved.  Allegations and comments by competitors that are
unsubstantiated will not be addressed in a public forum, since it serves no
purpose than to spend needless time on nonsensical email threads.

Regards,

Bruce

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Bhavin Turakhia [mailto:bhavin.t@directi.com] 
Sent:	Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:03 PM
To:	Beckwith, Bruce; Registrars@dnso.org
Subject:	RE: [registrars] Fw: [nc-whois] useful information/link

hi bruce,

a beter way to nip this one in the bud would be

INSTEAD OF TELLING US (and that was a quick response) how Verisign DID NOT
GET THIS DATA - if they could tell us HOW THEY GOT THIS DATA

bhavin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Beckwith, Bruce
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:11 PM
> To: Registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: RE: [registrars] Fw: [nc-whois] useful information/link
>
>
> Let's nip this one in the bud.
>
> We do provide a lookup in our whois
> (http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois), even if it is not a
> domain that
> we have registered, which is a functionality that our customers have
> requested, however, we do not store or in any way track or utilize that
> data.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bruce
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Tom Chaffin [mailto:tchaffin@stargateinc.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:00 PM
> To:	Registrars@dnso.org
> Subject:	RE: [registrars] Fw: [nc-whois] useful information/link
>
> Just a thought...
>
> Verisign has one of the most widely used web based whois servers.  It
> provides access to almost every registrar's port 43 whois. Verisign could
> easily log every response processed and utilize that data.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Ross Wm. Rader
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: tim@godaddy.com; bbeckwith@verisign.com
> Cc: Registrars@dnso.org
> Subject: Re: [registrars] Fw: [nc-whois] useful information/link
>
>
> I'm more interested in Tim's original question...
>
> "how [Verisign] got the data in the first place."
>
> -rwr
>