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Re: New LEGO Corp Websites?
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:46:02 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:
> Naji Norder <n.norder@computer.org> wrote:
> > Sites like register.com still have to give the dns info to Network Solutions,
> > since they (NS) still run the .com. DNS servers.  (If you do an nslookup from
> 
> 
> Actually, that's not true. (And, the whois database is seperate from the
> dns database, anyway.)

Hmm.  That's actually disheartening.  Since NS is primary name service for
.org, I had -hoped- that they kept their whois service up with their dns
service.  Large, global databases make searching easier. :-)


> Try
> 
> whois mkmiller.org
> 
> and
> 
> whois -h whois.register.com mkmiller.org


Yes, I see.  I have used register.com's web whois stuff before, and there, if
it is not in their database, they serve the info from NS' database.  I never
ran into one not in the NS whois, so I didn't see that they also served their
own.

> 
> (or "whois mkmiller.org@whois.register.com", depending on your
> implementation of whois)
> 
> 
> Nevertheless, you're probably right in assuming that the cgi on
> 
> register.com's web site does a full check in some way, and that
> legomedia-resources.com is not registered anywhere.


Well, since they are trying to sell it to me, then I hope it's available!

Thanks,
Naji

> 
> *wait five minutes*
> 
> Fun with bash:
> 
> metawhois() {
> \whois $1@`\whois $1@whois.nsiregistry.com|awk '/Whois Server:/ { print $3 }'`
> }
> alias whois=metawhois
> 
> If you're using some *gak* csh variant, you'll of course need to modify
> that.
> 
> --
> Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
> Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/
> 



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(...) Yeah, it's very messy. And until we see more tlds (I'm actually a proponent of allowing _any_ tld, with maybe a five-character limit), it's not like there's very much benefit for us involved. Ah well. Anyway, there does seem to be a (...) (27 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: New LEGO Corp Websites?
 
(...) Actually, that's not true. (And, the whois database is seperate from the dns database, anyway.) Try whois mkmiller.org and whois -h whois.register.com mkmiller.org (or "whois mkmiller.org@whois.r...ster.com", depending on your implementation (...) (27 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)

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