http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi
is a very good WHOIS search engine
alex.
-----Original Message-----
From: orion3@ntemail.internetcds.com
[mailto:orion3@ntemail.internetcds.com]
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 16:49
To: discuss-list@opensrs.org
Subject: RE: registration discrepancy
Look at the results from whois.networksolutions.com after the long
disclaimer they append a note for domains not under their registry:
The previous information has been obtained either directly from the
registrant or a registrar of the domain name other than Network
Solutions.
Network Solutions, therefore, does not guarantee its accuracy or
completeness.
Domain not found in remote registrar whois.
They are not searching other domain registries for whois information. If you
need reliable whois info use whois.crsnic.net. This will send back the info
for the correct registrar and the whois engine to use for that registrar.
Doug Harris
InternetCDS
800-943-4638 x2130
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Allan [mailto:sallan@opensrs.org]
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 6:12 AM
To: discuss-list@opensrs.org
Subject: Re: registration discrepency
At 07:53 PM 6/15/00 -1000, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Wonder if any of you have ran into this..... We registered a couple of
>domain names for 5 years. However, when we do a whois it appears
>available. If we do a whois at
><http://www.opensrs.org/whois>www.opensrs.org/whois it shows up registered
>correctly but if we got to netsol and do a whois lookup there it says the
>domain is available. So what's the bottom line here?
Whois is not authoritative, especially for new registrations (under 24
hours old), especially for registrations made at other registrars. I
imagine it will show up now, or sometime today (on NSI's whois). If you
were to try and actually register it at NSI (or anywhere else for that
matter), your attempt would fail (provided of course that you actually
registered it with OpenSRS properly).
Hope this helps -
Regards,
sA
Scott Allan
Director OpenSRS
sallan@opensrs.org
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