I just got an email from Microsoft stating that their public UDDI registry is shutting down. Interesting. It really wasn't ever useful as much of the data in it was bogus data. It is good that it is shutting down for this reason. UDDI is better used within the enterprise.
It also seems that IBM is shutting theirs down at the same time:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/solutions/webservices/uddi/
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You are receiving this mail because you have
registered as a publisher
on the Microsoft test node of the
UDDI Business Registry (UBR).
The primary goal of the UBR was to
prove the interoperability and
robustness of the UDDI specifications
through a public implementation. This
goal was met and far exceeded, and now
the UBR is discontinuing its
operations. As part of this process the
Microsoft UBR node at
test.uddi.microsoft.com will be permanently
unavailable for all operations
beginning January 12, 2006. Data stored in
the UBR may be retrieved until
January 12, 2006 and used in accordance
with the UDDI Business Registry
terms of use available at
http://uddi.microsoft.com/policies/termsofuse.aspx.
You may find the
UDDI Data Export Wizard useful for
retrieving your data, and it is
available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
familyid=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD.
For more information, please see the
frequently asked questions related
to the UBR discontinuation at
http://uddi.microsoft.com/about/FAQshutdown.htm.
You may submit
feedback to Microsoft at the following location:
http://uddi.microsoft.com/contact/default.aspx.
Thank You,
Microsoft UDDI Team
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