--On Monday, October 30, 2006 9:56 PM -0800 Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Generally speaking whois queries is a poor way to determine
domain age, at least for client applications. The whois
infrastructure is simply not designed to support the volume of
queries required, even if locally cached. Other problems:
1. Inconsistent record formats
2. Rate limits much lower than the number of domains registered
or kited/tasted each day. http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html
3. Unavailability of whois for some TLDs
A centralized server would be better, but still subject to some
of the problems above.
I wonder why no DNS record holding such information has been defined, to be
served in a special domain similar to in-addr.arpa?
