Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Network Solutions Overhauls Whois Results

Posted by timothy on from the now-it-needs-orkut-style-linking dept.

Robert Accettura writes "Network Solutions has updated its whois interface, giving it an interesting new twist. On top of regular info provided, it shows data that appears to be from Alexa, including a screenshot of the homepage (though not terribly recent), as well as looks up your IP, and displays lots of information on it. It even shows the server type, if it supports SSL, DMOZ, Yahoo listing, traffic ranking, and lock status. This comes right after they announced rapid DNS updates. Perhaps they are trying to win over the geeks before they turn on sitefinder?"

1 of 243 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Alexa Violating Copyrights by GuyFawkes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    blocking with robots.txt doesn't work with the new and improved msn search, which simply ignores it and indexes EVERYTHING....

    as a result I have edited my robots.txt on my genealogy site to the following.

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /

    eg, fuck you msn search

    there's quite a fuss going on about this quietly, msn tech's are claiming that they aren't doing anything wrong since robots.txt isn't an accepted standard anyway... hopefully if everyone bans msn search totally as I have done they will get the fucking message.

    check out the replies from "msndude" the msn tech in the following forum.
    http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum97/73.h tm

    --
    http://slashdot.org/~GuyFawkes/journal