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In <BuuJ71.DBt@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> demco@cs.ubc.ca (John Demco) writes:
>Hi, as Tom has mentioned, the CA domain information is not available
>via "whois".  But see below.

Many organizations have an IP network number, which *should* be registered
with the NIC.  This is a starting point for me on my frequent search for
the answer to "Is Company X on the Internet?"

How long should we wait for an all-singing, all-dancing distributed
Internet directory service?  How much work is being obstructed now, how
many useful linkages not forming, because people can't find each other, and
worse, can't even tell whether an organization exists on the Internet or
not?

How much information would be in a Canadian WHOIS server?  I think that if
we took the .CA domain information and gopherized and indexed it we'd have
a pretty good start.  You could look up organizations by name, province, or
by some keyword in a fulltext search.  What do people think?  This would be
a pretty small project- an afternoon, say, to build a hundred lines of
Perl, and since it would use the information from John Demco's machine,
would be self-maintaining.
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