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Rewrite of the manual page to make it clear that NSI and InterNIC

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are no longer the same organisation.

Submitted by:	Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
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Josef Karthauser 1999-12-06 19:58:57 +00:00
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@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ If no required whois-servers.net subdomain found, fallback
to whois.crsnic.net provided.
.It Fl i
Use the Network Solutions Registry for Internet Numbers
.Pq Tn InterNIC
.Pq Tn whois.networksolutions.com
database. It contains network numbers and domain contact information
for most of
.Tn \&.COM ,
@ -89,7 +89,13 @@ for most of
.Tn \&.ORG
and
.Tn \&.EDU
domains.
domains. NOTE! The registration of these doamins is now done by a number of
independent and competing registrars and this database holds no information
on the domains registered by organizations other than Network Solutions, Inc.
Also, note that the InterNIC database
.Pq Tn whois.internic.net
is no longer handled by Network Solutions, Inc. For details, see:
http://www.internic.net/.
.It Fl m
Use the Route Arbiter Database
.Pq Tn RADB