The whois is a terrible indicator :(
One of the most common support questions is, "Your system won't let me
register this domain. The whois says it's available..." In every case,
the whois is ALWAYS wrong. Our system is ALWAYS right.
I admit that I don't use domain lookups extensively but I don't find it
slow except for the 5am rush (which is Verisign's bottleneck, Not
OpenSRS)
I-Tequenology wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> 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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