RE: Unable To Register domains

From: I-Tequenology (Maillist@i-tequenology.co.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 02:13:21 EDT

WHOIS is not perfect - but it is a very good indicator.

We still use WHOIS as it typically performs faster lookups than the OpenSRS
Client Lookup. 

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Regards,

Sam
I-Tequenology

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org
[mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of bill@daze.net
Sent: 03 August 2001 00:32
To: Kevin Javaheri
Cc: discuss-list@opensrs.org
Subject: Re: Unable To Register domains

> Is anyone else having a problem registering domains through
> resellers.opensrs.net?  Everytime, we try and submit a new reg.
> we get a message saying the domain name is taken, when a whois
> lookup says it is available.

You are using the WHOIS contact database to check domain
availability?  WHOIS doesn't have the ability to tell you if a domain is
available or not.  You will need to use the domain availability lookup
function (which is available via the OpenSRS client scripts--in
reg_system.cgi) to check if a domain is actually available for
registration or not.

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