Deletion of German domains

mike.norris at heanet.ie wrote:
> 
> >   According to the agreement between RIPE NCC and DENIC we plan
> 
> Has this agreement been published?
> 
No, this is a working agreement about technical details. It is based on
the community consensus that domain related information (excluding
reverse delegations) should be moved from the RIPE Database to the
respective ccTLD databases.

The RIPE Database will still be the source for domain related
information using referral mechanism (as long as top level domain
objects point to the actual domain databases). Though it may be more
efficient to query these databases directly.

> > to delete German (.de) domain objects from RIPE whois database
> > on June 28th. From then on, information about German domains will
> > be available from DENIC's whois server, whois.nic.de.
> 
> While speed and efficiency are to be commended, this is rather short
> notice, isn't it?  From the mail on 8th June, I understood that DENIC
> would need between one and two months after moving the domain objects
> before the associated person objects could be moved.
> 

You are right, we are moving only domain objects. The person objects
will remain in the RIPE Database for several months.

> Regards.
> 
> Mike

Regards,


Andrei Robachevsky
DB Group Manager
RIPE NCC