RE: [gnso-irtp-b-jun09] Response from ICANN Compliance re. impact of voluntarily language on 60 day lock

["Rob Golding" <rob.golding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > However for a "thin-whois" system like .com this is not trivial or
> (with any
> > level of real accuracy) automatable.
> >
> > Because the registry does not hold details of who the registrant is
> > (arguably the most important piece of information after the domain
> name
> > itself) the new registrar is (as far as I can tell) forced to attempt
> to
> > "scrape" the details from a text dump of the public whois (when its
> > working), with varying degrees of success.
> 
> And in "thin whois" you have to do the same with all the other contacts
> too .. not just the registrant

Yes, and it's further complicated when registrars don't put the required
data on their whois output - like no registrant email address (so how do you
contact them ?) and even no expiry date on some !

We've written a "software as a service" checker which 'scrapes' the common
transfers (based on those transferred to us during 2009) but the workload to
keep upto date and to "complete" by coding for each registrars format is
potentially immense , and still no g'tee of getting the correct information.

Fat-Whois is much better IMHO :)

Rob