Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!EUROPA.CLEARPOINT.COM!kasten From: kasten@EUROPA.CLEARPOINT.COM (Frank Kastenholz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: whereis service needed Message-ID: <9104102214.AA12053@europa.clearpoint.com> Date: 10 Apr 91 22:14:37 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 50 > From tcp-ip-RELAY@nic.ddn.mil Wed Apr 10 18:08:51 1991 > From: hal@gateway.mitre.org > To: tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil > Subject: whereis service needed > > > Here the issue: > > I am seeing fully qualified domain names with parts I don't recognize. > Not that these are wrong but just unfamilar. It would be useful to > have access to a server of some kind that would map fragements of a > domain name into an geographical location by political subdivision. > This might be a useful extension to the current domain names system. > Any thoughts?? > WHOIS does a reasonably adequate job of starting one on one's way -- for domains that are registered at the NIC. Here is the output when I "whois" my domain...... europa{kasten}147: whois clearpoint.com Clearpoint Corporation (CLEARPOINT-DOM) 35 Parkwood Drive Hopkingon, MA 01748 Domain Name: CLEARPOINT.COM Administrative Contact: O'Conner, Russell (RO88) russ@CLEARPOINT.COM (508) 435-0900 ext 7454 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Emery, David I. (DIE2) die@CLEARPOINT.COM (508) 435-0900 ext 7462 Record last updated on 28-Sep-90. Domain servers in listed order: CRACKERS.CLEARPOINT.COM 131.226.1.60 NIC.NEAR.NET 192.52.71.4 TIBERIUS.CLEARPOINT.COM 131.226.3.1 To see this host record with registered users, repeat the command with a star ('*') before the name; or, use '%' to show JUST the registered users. Frank Kastenholz