North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Root Server Problems
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jay Stewart wrote: > It's my understanding that NetSol stopped publishing payment status > information in the whois database, because domain resellers were > registering domains on speculation, then re-registering them when they > were deleted from the database. The "on-hold" flag in the database was > being used by speculators to determine when to re-register the domains > so that a legitimate domain seeker could not get them. The "on-hold" flag is still available: $ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com "dump foo.com" | grep \(29 (29) parentdom: HOLD-PAY |
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