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[Martin C <martin AT mchomenet.com>]

> Do you plan on implementing remote registration?
Yes. In fact, in my Drafts folder, I have had an email sitting for 2-3 
days detailing how I plan to allow remote domain registrations via my 
system, ala Verisign and "accredited registrars". Is that what you meant?

> With a good 'ol rWHOIS server, you can allow remote machines (or
> localhost) to perform whois registration/editing/deletion.
Oh I see, registration of _details_. Oh well, the above information was 
not going to be a secret anyhow.

Hmm, like I said, I am still trying to figure out what is necessary for 
a basic WHOIS server, as well as what is expected. But the details are 
retrieved from the system, so when the user changes them, they are 
updated and the information found through WHOIS would be coming from the 
same data source. So registration and editing is basically already there 
and changes are instant.

> How does your current implementation work? Does it retrieve the query
> from SQL?
Yes, it feeds from the central data source that powers my software, 
codenamed "MUD4TLD". All SQL.

However, at some point I was planning on tweaking the WHOIS server to 
read all records into memory and then delivering those when needed. This 
saves having disk reads for every query. This was just an idea, but I 
have yet to determine if there is a need for this level of optimisation yet.

Martin.