Questions tagged [whois]
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How does a registrar update the gtld name servers?
Is there a standardized protocol how a registrar updates the NS information for a domain? For example, if, through my registrar's interface, I set the name servers for "example.com" to "ns1.example.com" and "ns2.example.com" how are…
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How to whois microsoft.com from command-line?
If you 'whois microsoft.com', you get a whole bunch of listings from pranksters who thought it would be funny to mess with the listings by putting 'microsoft.com' in their subdomains.
The output instructs:
To single out one record, look it up with…
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How do I do an exact whois search?
When I execute the following whois command on my Ubuntu server, I get all sorts of other domains which contain google.com in the name, but clearly aren't owned by google. As this appears to be some sort of spam, I won't paste the output here. I'd…
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Avoid own domain name for WHOIS records?
I remember the claim that if you have registered example.com you should never use ...@example.com for owner, admin-c, tech-c or zone-c. The reason given was that if the registrar goes bankrupt the domain example.com also stops working. You could…
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Tools for finding domain names
I've built out a pet project of mine, and am now looking for a good domain name for it. Arbitrarily doing whois lookups on ideas that pop into my head seems inefficient.
What tools do you use when searching for a good domain name?
Some ideas to get…
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How to find all previous owners of a domain
Everyone knows that it is possible to find the owner of a domain using whois, but a person asked me if it was possible to know all the previous owners of a domain. Is it possible?
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My dns works when I do a “dig @mynameserver hostname” but not when I do a “dig hostname”
My nameserver isn't working properly, and I can't figure out why.
When I do a 'whois cfconsulting.ca', it shows the correct nameservers, with ns1.signupsystems.com being the primary. If you do a "dig @ns1.signupsystems.com cfconsulting.ca" you get…
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Why can't I whois '.google' domains?
I know of only two domains under the TLD google (owned by Google, obviously):
nic.google
lers.google
However, neither of these give valid output when used with whois:
$ whois nic.google
No whois server is known for this kind of object.
Why aren't…
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Fixing my glue records
In reference to this question, I've been working with skv to fix their glue records and I'm sort of wondering what I should be seeing. They've called DNSMadeEasy and got assistance creating the glue records.
Here's what I see when I query a TLD…
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How can I check whether a domain is occupier without fear that whois provider will immediately register it?
There are many horror stories when people checked domains, found not occupied, but when came back to register the best one, all of them appeared to be registered by someone else.
So, what is the safest way to check domains for being occupied?
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How to write a good abuse email when there is money involved?
I work for a service provider, and we've suffered an attack. We've learned from it, but nonetheless it has cost us. The good thing is we have pcap traces of the event, and IP addresses.
Now my question is, how does one send a good abuse mail to the…
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Does hitting this command in unix have a rate limit?
$whois somedomain.com
What is the limit on this?
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What does STATUS:CLIENT HOLD mean in a domain record?
A site I was once responsible for has disappeared off the interwebs - its WHOIS record includes the somewhat mysterious line STATUS:CLIENT HOLD.
Is that why the site is no longer accessible (it still seems to have nameservers associated with it as…
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Whois tells me a domain is unregistered. Why are the registrars charging $3,000
Whois tells me tiger.top is unregistered but NameSilo, Hover and Namecheap all claim that it is a 'premium' domain and want over $3k for its initial registration. What's going on? Why is the price so high?
I imagine it could be one of the following…
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How a registrar works?
Hello I've a question because i'm not sure about something. When I perform whois on domain.com
I get something like :
Domain servers in listed order :
ns1.domain.com
ns2.domain.com
The IP from ns1.domain.com is 'hard coded' in the registrar. My…
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