Why Is Internic Restricting WHOIS Queries?

Ötti asks: "I just noticed that InterNIC started to restrict access to its WHOIS database. That puts sites like Allwhois into an awkward situation, since they cannot provide lookups anymore. That might sound like a minor problem to those of you located in the U.S., but in other parts of the world it is very convenient to have a unified interface to all registrars in the world. And once again it raises the ultimate questions: Who owns the informations on domain name holders? Why is it not publicly accessible and how can organizations like ICANN help to improve matters?"

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You wanna know why?

[Wakko Warner]

"Because they fucking can." No other reason. It seems, ever since NSI was privatized, the quality of service has plummeted to earth faster than Amazon's stock price. NSI, now headed by *retarded* one-armed monkeys (they were smart monkeys when the government owned them) is out to see to it that your job, as a network administrator, is made as difficult as they possibly can. That's actually their business model, and it's the reason their stock, even in the face of myriad competitors, each of which doing a better job than NSI at domain registration and pricing, continues to climb.

Retarded, one-armed monkeys, I tell you. Only someting that stupid could come up with the little disclaimer they put before "whois" output.

- A.P.
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