Hello, On 29.06.00 17:40 Sebastian Willing <s.willing@mops.net> wrote:

Hello!

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On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:38:12PM +0200, Thorsten Schreiner wrote:

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I think they want to become a BIG player... but actually can't right

I cannot understand why the DENIC doesn't help funding with one

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database instead of setting up a own system. The usability and work of

central ripe the

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ripe database was the best database ever, with automated robot for updates within minutes and a very good maintainer scheme. The RIPE didn't want to serve the .de-namespace for free any longer and it seems that the DeNic didn't want to pay for the services. I agree that the better solution would have been to pay the RIPE for service.

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In the meanwhile we have Handles with the same key XYZ-RIPE, with

different

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contents in RIPE-db and DeNIC-db (not only the missing remarks, but also phone and fax, and if someone makes changes to one of the two handles

That was not an option we have as I tried to explain in another email. the

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other will keep the old data).

No they are currently mirrored but we are not allowed to publish these data.

....and what if a handle is deleted from one DB but not from the other? Once the handle # is re-assigned, the owner of a domain depends on the server you ask.

I think, the best thing is to restore the deleted records from RIPE backups and to remove the referer to the DeNic-whois-server until either the DeNic is

The owner of the domain is the one stored in the DENIC database. Sabine paying

or is running a workable service (maybe with references to the RIPE-whois-server for persons). Yours, S.Willing

Sabine Dolderer DENIC eG Wiesenhüttenplatz 26 D-60329 Frankfurt eMail: Sabine.Dolderer@denic.de Fon: +49 69 27235 0 Fax: +49 69 27235 235