Subject:
|
Re: New LEGO Corp Websites?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.geek
|
Date:
|
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:46:02 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
506 times
|
| |
|
|
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/
>
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: New LEGO Corp Websites?
|
| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | 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 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
|
18 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
