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A comment on Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois.

Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by techslave on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:47AM (#21981030)
i feel the outrage, however the whois is public data. enforcing some usage restriction is beyond silly. if you actually want to restrict it, require a login to make a query. make those logins cost money so that you have a valid contract.
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Re:Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois by shadowgovt on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:01PM (#21982612)
Correct. Or have the whois state tie to a channel that can be filtered (such as a voicemail service that transcribes incoming calls).

If you can afford to host an Internet service, you can afford transcribing voicemail service in 2020.

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