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Name Charges for Whois Access

Global Name Registry is charging for access to its whois database. While ICANN requires that Registries provide a public whois database, particularly for security and legal reasons, GNR won the right to create tiered levels of access to their whois database. Public searches of the database show little more than the registrar and name servers. To get more information, searches must pay $2 per 24 hours