On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:26:03PM +0000, Stephen Burley wrote:
That ones easy, it should never have been used for this info RIPE is the rIPe repository not the domains authority.
Perhaps it wasn't designed for this usage, but it was clearly the best system we ever had for domain registry. You could use the same person handles for a number of top level domains which reduced the work in a great way. Now we will have to cope with different person handles for every registry, with complicated update procedures and so on. The wiser solution would be, if the registries would have agreed on supporting the central ripe database by funding and services. I don't see how the costs can be lower for several independent registries than for one community-payed-for central registry. If you want to see what can happen when all this information disappears from ripe and will be moved to other registries, just take the DeNIC (or the CORE) as an example. For both registries i don't know how to update my handles or can do it only by asking an official registrar / member. This fragmentation of registries will only lead to unreliable and outdated informations in the databases.
The only domains that are in there are the reverse domains for very good reasons.
No, the ripe database contains in the moment data for at least 21 top level (country) domains.
designed to for this use and so give the RIPE community back the level of response from the servers/systems the community funded and frankly deserve.
The ripe database was always very well in service. -- With kind regards Michael Holzt