On Thursday 11 November 2010 03:59, Sten Carlsen wrote: > Yes, I do use whois, my problem is which of the many dozens of whois > servers to ask. > > E.g. if you want to know who owns telephone.com(random example), do you > ask whois.moniker.com, whois.markmonitor.com, whois.enum.com or ???.
Why make things so difficult? How about a simple 'whois <domain>'? That should get you the information you are looking for. > If you don't know who to ask, it can take maybe 20 attempts before you > find a whois server tha gives some helpful info. In some cases looking > at the NS records helps If the domain is registered properly then the above will get you your answer on the first attempt. > Somebody put up the whois.uwhois.net, but that rarely gives an answer. Then logic would tell you not to use this server. > How do you determine where to ask? I don't, I allow whois to do that for me. Using your example: whois telephone.com [Querying whois.verisign-grs.com] [Redirected to whois.tucows.com] [Querying whois.tucows.com] [whois.tucows.com] Please provide a real world example where you cannot get the whois information. -- Regards Robert Linux The adventure of a life time. Linux User #296285 Get Counted http://counter.li.org/ _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
