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Re: no whois info ?

  • From: Peter John Hill
  • Date: Thu Dec 09 19:50:59 2004

Jeff Rosowski wrote:

shell1% whois vestigial3had.com
...

No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM".
What gives ?  How can their be no whois info anywhere ?
How about the following... (note that just because someone is using someone as their authoritative name server doesn't mean that the other people (in this case kronuna.biz) have anything to do with it...

[[email protected] ~]$ dig ns vestigial3had.com
<snip>
;; ANSWER SECTION:
vestigial3had.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.kronuna.biz.
vestigial3had.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.kronuna.biz.

[[email protected] ~]$ whois kronuna.biz
[Querying whois.neulevel.biz]
[whois.neulevel.biz]
Domain Name: KRONUNA.BIZ
Domain ID: D8290016-BIZ
Sponsoring Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 69
Domain Status: ok
Registrant ID: TU9XLFHXRK2QTZCE
Registrant Name: domain administrator
Registrant Organization: Tehillimzeiger Pushkaya
Registrant Address1: Suite M-242, Christamar 43-B
Registrant Address2: Avda. De las Naciones Unidas
Registrant City: Puerto Banus - Marbella
Registrant State/Province: Malaga
Registrant Postal Code: 29660
Registrant Country: Spain
Registrant Country Code: ES
Registrant Phone Number: +371.7338359
Registrant Email: [email protected]

<snip>





Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10
minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data
is still updated once or twice a day. That means if spammer registers new
domain he'll be able to use it immediatly and it'll not yet show up in
whois (and so not be immediatly identifiable to spam reporting tools) -
and spammers are in fact using this "feature" more and more!
You can also make whois information private, usually for an additional fee.