Goodbye Whois?

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p2pnet news | Freedom:- One of the Net’s oldest and most hallowed online institutions may be dumped because of concerns voiced by privacy advocates.

They want it shut down because, “they can’t agree with the people who use the system on how to give domain name owners more options when they register - such as designating third-party agents,” says Associated Press.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13827

Whois May Be Whowas
By Saul Hansell
The little corner of the Internet that tells users who owns an Internet site may be about to close.
The corner is the service called whois, which registrars of Internet domains offer with the names and contact information for each site.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/whois-may-be-whowas/