Hello Hostmaster, as you can see, this Handle has been created at 8:32 today, which is 10:32 local time. Now, THREE hours after, ...: admin hostmast ~%date; wripe WH724-RIPE Fri Aug 7 13:23:43 CEST 1998 [sequoia.ripe.net] % Rights restricted by copyright. See http://www.ripe.net/db/dbcopyright.html % No entries found for the selected source(s). % % If you would like to search on arbitrary strings, % please see the Database page on the RIPE NCC % web-site at http://www.ripe.net/db/ % This will only work for RIPE data. This is not a single case, all our handles aren't available hours(!) after the succeeded mail has arrived. The 10 Minutes stated in the return messages would be okay, but we can't afford to have one day between handle registration and domain registration. I consider this a serious problem. Can you tell me if this is going to be fixed soon? Kind regards, Eric Schaetzlein Schlund + Partner GmbH & Co. Erbprinzenstr. 1 Tel. +49-721-91374-50 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany Fax +49-721-91374-20 http://www.schlund.de hostmaster@schlund.de ----- Forwarded message from RIPE Database Management <ripe-dbm@ripe.net> ----- Date: 7 Aug 1998 08:32:13 -0000 To: hostmaster@schlund.de From: RIPE Database Management <ripe-dbm@ripe.net> Subject: SUCCEEDED: Person: Wilfried Hauf Reply-To: ripe-dbm@ripe.net Your update was SUCCESSFUL, but it can take 10 minutes before your update is visible using a whois look-up.

From: hostmaster@schlund.de Subject: Person: Wilfried Hauf Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 10:19:22 +0200 Msg-Id: <E0z4hkA-00040w-00@admin.schlund.de>

The following objects were processed. New OK: [person] WH724-RIPE (Wilfried Hauf) ----- End forwarded message -----