Re: [gnso-ff-pdp-may08] Information based solutions instead of policy based solutions

[Marc Perkel <marc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

The queries I'm talking about isn't about running whois because I need 
to get this information for every (or most) emails I process. It would 
involve servicing million of queries an hour. And don't need the whole 
whois - just the registrar, age, and number of recent changes.
Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
> I'll skip down to the questions ...
>
> Marc Perkel wrote:
> > 1) The domain's registrar.
> whois:43 or whois:80.
>
> > 2) The number of days old based on the current domain owner?
> last changed data in whois, but the better choice is a nightly 
> zonefile fetch and construct your own horizon(s)
> > 3) The number of name server changes made in the last 3 days?
> see #2, zonefile fetch, where the number would be almost always 0 or 3.
>
> Eric