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       Title     : Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval                 
       Author(s) : J. Klensin, T. Wolf
       Filename  : draft-klensin-tld-whois-01.txt
       Pages     : 6
       Date      : 11/19/1996

Location of web information for particular companies based on their names 
has become an increasingly difficult problem and the Internet and the web 
grow.   The use of a naming convention and the domain name system (DNS) for
that purpose has caused complications for the latter while not solving the 
problem.  While there have been several proposals to use contemporary, 
high-capability, directory service and search protocols to reduce the 
dependencies on DNS conventions, none of them have been significantly 
deployed.                              
                                    
This document proposes a company name to URL mapping service based on the 
oldest and least complex of Internet directory protocols, whois, in order 
to explore whether and extremely simple and widely-deployed protocol can 
succeed where more complex and powerful options have failed or been 
excessively delayed.                                                       

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