Deletion of German domains

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:07:00PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > When finally DENIC has its own person database one will get <handle>-DENIC
> > indeed. But then there is no need to query whois.ripe.net for this handle.
> 
> i.e. in the long run we have to teach people to query <number of cctld>
> separate databases?  this is not reasonable.

Of course it is reasonable, but not very convenient.

In any case, we already have to query lots of seperate databases
with lots of incompatible data formats. Just look at the gTLD
registries, CH-NIC, UK Nominet or the asian registries.

This is not a real problem. The problems arise whenever this
non-structure changes and you have to adapt to yet another
method of retrieving data. Unfortunately, DENIC is no exception
to that rule.


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