* Tobias Knecht:
Wouldn't it be easier if RIPE created person/role object dumps, containing only the nic-hdl and the abuse-mailbox field? IRT object dumps would make a lot of sense, too.
I think RIPE shuts down the Bulk Data Service because of Privacy issues. So that might not be the right way.
What? Even for the inetnum objects? Can you provide a pointer for that, please?
whois -h whois.ripe.net IRT-MCI-NL -b
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