* Mark Andrews: > Domain whois is absolutely useful. Try contacting a site to report > that their nameservers are hosed without it.
A lot of WHOIS servers do not show who's running the name servers, or who maintains the data served by them. Those that do usually provide information which is provably wrong. > Remember that about 50% of zones have not RFC compliant name servers > (the software is broken) and that newer resolver depend on default > behaviour working correctly. If WHOIS records were useful for contacting operators, you wouldn't have to raise these issues on public lists periodically.
