Re: 3rd-Party Whois Issue

From: bill@daze.net
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 13:22:34 EDT


> Can anybody explain to me why the Allwhois service
> (http://www.allwhois.com) returns the following message for all of our
> OpenSRS-registered domains?

I would suggest you ask Allwhois the question as most of us have no idea
how their service works.

A quick glance shows that Allwhois is the whois service od a registrar
named Alldomains.com. This probably explains why they don't list OpenSRS
domains. OpenSRS domains are not registered through
Alldomains.com. OpenSRS is a different competing registrar of Alldomains.

> "NOTE: THE WHOIS DATABASE IS A CONTACT DATABASE ONLY. LACK OF A DOMAIN
> RECORD DOES NOT SIGNIFY DOMAIN AVAILABILITY."

At least they got the disclaimer right...

I would also add that you shouldn't expect one registrar's whois to show
accurate information for another registrar's customers.



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