Lisa - 7:04 am on Jan 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

Today Verisign offical released three new fields in registry whois records.

Those 3 fields are:

Status:
Creation Date:
Expiration Date:

Here is an example new record.

Domain Name: EXAMPLE.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: [networksolutions.com...]
Name Server: NS1.NAMESERVER.NET
Name Server: NS2.NAMESERVER.NET
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 02-oct-2002
Creation Date: 06-nov-1998
Expiration Date: 05-nov-2011