Saturday, June 22, 2002, 1:26:56 PM, David Delbridge wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can anybody explain to me why the Allwhois service
> (http://www.allwhois.com) returns the following message for all of our
> OpenSRS-registered domains?
> "NOTE: THE WHOIS DATABASE IS A CONTACT DATABASE ONLY. LACK OF A DOMAIN
> RECORD DOES NOT SIGNIFY DOMAIN AVAILABILITY."
> No other information is returned. No contacts. No name servers. This
> is particularly troublesome for us as we have written several agents
> that use the Allwhois service for determining domain name registration
> and configuration status for domains used by our hosting customers.
Why would they use a competing registrar's whois to lookup domain
info at another registrar?
This is yet another example of why registrars should not run recursive
dns service on their authoritative whois servers.
-- Best regards, William X Walsh <william@wxweb.com> -- OpenSRS installation and customizations Payment Processing Integration Apache Installation and Support Services http://www.wxsoft.com/
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