Re: [registrars] .net thick/thin discussion

[Jens Wagner <jwagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Erlich schrieb:

> Jens Wagner wrote:
>  
>
> > This should be proposed as an EPP extension anyway. At least one line of
> > text per domain name should be usable for such purposes.
> >    
> There would have to be at least two lines of text
> per domain. One for the registrar with full contact
> information and one for the reseller. But I am still in favor
> of a thin model. Keep in mind that our whole system is setup
> as a thick model and I would rather not have to have the
> expense of re-writing our whole system to accomodate this change.
> I don't think you can assume that this is trivial for many
> registrars. This will be expensive. 
>  
How do you handle .org, .biz and .info right now? They are thick, too.

> > This is up to the registry. However there should be a webinterface that
> > shows all informations 'pretty-printed'.
> >    
> Doesn't handle the situation where another entity wants to query
> port 43 to display the information without creating their
> own routine to "pretty-print" the info. In other words it will
> only be nicely human readable if viewed through the registry
> web interface but not through another entities web interface.
>  
Usually every registrar has its own "pritty-print" routines right now.
How do you display .com/.net whois data of other registrars, or whois 
data for .biz/.info domains?
 -  jens