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The whois utility is the Internet username directory service that you can use from a Unix computer. At Indiana University, you can use it on UITS Unix systems to look up users at other organizations. (To look up people at IU, use the IU Address Book; you can no longer use whois to find IU users.) For an online help message about whois, at the Unix prompt, enter:
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EPIC was previously a representative from the Non-Commercial Users constituency serving on the prior WHOIS Task Force. The now defunct WHOIS Task Force was created by ICANN's Domain Name Supporting Organization's Names Council (now the Generic Names Supporting Organization Council) in February 2001 to give advice on WHOIS Policy and to review whether any changes to ICANN's WHOIS policy for the .com/.net/.org domains as set out under the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) should be made.
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Like most TCP/IP client/server applications, a WHOIS client takes the user input and then opens an IP socket to its destination server. The WHOIS protocol is used to establish a connection on the appropriate port and send the query. The client waits for a response from the server, which it then either returns to the end-user or uses to make additional queries.
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ICANN Extends Comment Period. ICANN has extended the public comment period to July 5th, 2004 for each of the Preliminary Reports of the three WHOIS task forces. For help in submitting comments, the Public Voice WHOIS Web Page lists the Reports, the addresses for comment submission, and the position of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency for each Task Force.
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Spam: Spammers often harvest plain-text email addresses from WHOIS requests. This means that both WHOIS servers and websites offering WHOIS lookups have resorted to special systems (such as Captcha, where users have to type in letters or numbers from a picture) and rate-limiting systems.
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