Hello adam,
Friday, November 10, 2000, 10:18:39 AM, you wrote:
> Florian Effenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> I have a feature suggestion: the possibility to see entry in
>> whois.opensrs.net for non-transfered names. When you register a new
>> domain name, you can query whois.opensrs.net to see the WHOIS entry
>> before it is in rs.internic.net. However, this does not work with
>> transfered domain names. Please add a switch, e.g. "-inourwhois" :-)) to
>> query the entry in your WHOIS.
>>
> Florian,
> 1) You already can. As soon as a domain has been accepted as registered or
> transferred in the OpenSRS system, it's immediately available in the OpenSRS
> WHOIS.
This is not true. It only becomes true after the registry updates
their whois, which can be a day or two AFTER the transfer was actually
affected. This is because the Tucows whois is broken, it queries the
registry whois BEFORE querying local.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]