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January 11, 2010

A New Metric for Gauging the Uselessness of a Given WHOIS Server

I've decided that I am from now on going to rank WHOIS servers by the percentage of actual useful data returned in a query response to the amount of useless boilerplate cruft returned in the same query response. Right now, the .name WHOIS server is ranking near dead last.

Nota bene: CIRA, by returning little useful information for many queries, but keeping its boilerplate/disclaimerese to a minimum, is screwing with my "rank by percentage" approach, but still.

Posted by schampeo at January 11, 2010 5:23 PM

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