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Here are several miscellaneous computer related articles, opinions and essays by fellow TTCS members.

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Collection of software links. Now kept at del.icio.us

WHOIS

WHOIS

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Introduction to WHOIS

The purpose of the gTLD WHOIS service is to provide information sufficient to contact a responsible party for a particular gTLD domain name who can resolve, or reliably pass on data to a party who can resolve, issues related to the configuration of the records associated with the domain name within a DNS name server.

Every website has a WHOIS entry which lists details of the person registering a website, including address and phone number details You can do a WHOIS lookup on any .com, .org domain at http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp. You can search details on who has registered a .tt domain at http://www.nic.tt/cgi-bin/search.pl

WHOIS Working Group

WHOIS Working Group Mailing List :

Current Policy Work on WHOIS

Latest draft document v1.5 from the WHOIS working group dated July 19th, 2007 can be found here :

http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-whois-wg/msg00507.html

The WHOIS working group will be attempting to submit a final document to the GNSO council before 30th July 2007.

This document is based on the work on the following

Final Task Force Report on Whois Services, including the public comments report on comments received on the policy proposals from November 2006 – January 2007 ;

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois-privacy/whois-services-final-tf-report-12mar07.htm

Staff notes on Potential Implementation Issues;

http://gnso.icann.org/issues/whois/staff-discussion-points-whois-final-15mar2007.htm

Government Advisory Committee Principles regarding gTLD WHOIS Services

http://gac.icann.org/web/communiques/gac27com.pdf