I'm qualifying this from 15+ years on the net, so bear with me as I'm
still learning.
That said, there are certain things which are interfering with
learning such information with less than what could be laborious
effort.
1) Assumption the information in the domain records is
accurate/correct. There are a substantial number (as in a sizeable
percentage) of registry records which are either not current or
intentionally contain misleading information. IIRC, ICANN rules
requires a registrar ca. fifteen days to notify an entry of a
discrepancy and force them to get it updated. The presumption is
you've contacted the registrar first, waited for your notification to
fall upon deaf ears, then contact ICANN. It is not unusual to find a
record which contains "Yellow Brick Road" as the street address; or an
area code, zip code, and city indicating Florida, Wyoming, and Texas,
respectively.
Before moving on, it was announced today China (.cn) will get their
TLD opened up internationally for people to register domains on an
easier schedule. What do you think the odds are they'll force their
registry customers to be accurate?
2) To prevent people from hoovering domain names and email addresses
within the entries (spammers are getting desperate for new addresses
anywhere they can get them), many registrars are preventing automatic
lookups against their databases; e.g., NetSol. If you use something
which attempts to perform a lookup against it, it'll acknowledge it's
under the auspices of NetSol, but you will have to go to the NetSol
site, enter the information, and look at it with human eyes.
With both of these factors in mind, the ability to retrieve the
information you seek with little or no effort will not be easy. I
would be wary of anyone whom claims otherwise. |
