Re: WJIB Website Under Construction?

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

Fascinating...I was under the impression that WHOIS was a centralized 
database that had the same info for everyone.  Guess not.

- Aaron


At 07:22 PM 3/12/2003 -0500, rogerkirk wrote:
>Laurence Glavin wrote:
> >>If you go to: http://www.wjib740.org
> >>you'll see a mesage that a website using that URL is registered and
> >>under construction.  How long has this been the case, and will a  WJIB
> >>website some day be available with streaming LTAR?
>
>Aaron Read replied:
> >Doesn't look like it...check out a WHOIS on that domain name:
> >http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=wjib740.org&Se 
> archType=do
> >
> >No mention of Bob or any sort of company that might be related to
> >him.   My guess (emphasis on "guess") is that this is a domain
> >squatter.
>
>To which I add:
>Alas, Aaron, it depends on whose whois youis uise.
>
>Register.com yielded the truth:
>Indeed Robert Bittner of Rowley MA
>is the Registrant, Administrative and Technical Contact.
>
>I have found that the results of a WHOIS on any
>given registrar's page may reveal absolutely
>nothing.  It's their way of saying "not registered
>here, pal - Good Luck!"
>
>Roger Kirk


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