Florian, there is no guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles. there is no name space for whois, nor an entity to register such. pick any prefix you wish. -rick On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Florian Weimer wrote: > Is there some method to guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles? > Can I register affixes somehwere? > > I'm currently creating a WHOIS-like database (which might be publicly > accessible one day), and I'd like to avoid handle collisions with > other WHOIS databases. > > (I asked a similar question on some IETF WHOIS list a few months ago, > but this list appears to be dead.) >