On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:12:04PM -0500, Rod Rodolico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 93 lines which said:
> I have a totally junk perl script that does it. How does it work? If it just queries the DNS, it is useless for .com or .net where the DNS is refreshed only twice a day. So, a domain can be free for twelve hours (and therefore easily taken by someone else) before you detect it. .com/.net registrars can provide such a service because they can query the database with RRP (RFC 2832). But the ordinary user cannot. Do note also there is no general solution (a solution for all the domains). In ".nl", you have the Is service which is made exactly for that reason <URL:http://www.domain-registry.nl/sidn_english/flat/Home/Why_is_it_that_since_29_January_I_can_run_only_15_data_queries_a_day_on_the_Whois_/index.html> but there is no standard service, each registry provides one. See also the new Waiting List Service by Verisign which may render all of this irrelevant for .com/.net.
