Re: coza whois

Joe Botha <joe-+yByi+yoEGVWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.ioz
Organization Joe, Inc.
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Hi andre                                      >@2011.07.18_15:10:44_GMT+0200

> > joe@ripley[~]$ whois trustfabric.co.za
> > whois: za.whois-servers.net: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
> > 
> Weird, but it works fine by me:

Different server:
root@blue[~]# whois trustfabric.co.za
This TLD has no whois server, but you can access the whois database at
http://whois.co.za/

> You probably mean why the results are so different?

Well.. why does it not just do what all the other whois services do?

> In co.za anyone can register a domain and it is not limited to 
> just registrars, so it is also open to much more abuse than
> others, I guess there are many many more reasons as well,
> have a look at the archives to see how far this discussion 
> have come

Hmm. I'm sure the .com guys have bigger problems than .co.za ..or they have
solved them already. Why is co.za so special?

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 Joe 
 
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