This isn't necessarily true - their web based interfaces for searching may
not be checking availability in the Multilingual registry, just the normal
registry (bad idea to register the names there!)....
Why is lookup not added? That's not what we do :) We don't put domain
availability on a public website - become a customer and use the tools :)
Yes, I know the client code for this isn't released yet, shortly... :) :)
:)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Sergei Kolodka wrote:
> Hello Charles,
>
> CD> First and foremost (and my apologies as well) - DONT CROSSPOST. Thank you.
> CD> The only way to determine availability is to try to register it (currently).
> CD> When the next version of the client code is released (anytime now) it will
> CD> have the ability to do a lookup on a domain name in realtime.
>
> Actually it is not the only one way :)
>
> 1. you can try to check via Register.com or NSI.com
> 2. there is form for translating multilinguals,
> http://www.opensrs.org/cgi-bin/RACE/index.cgi
> and after finding RACE for name you can check encoded name
> via usual non-multilingual lookup...
> Why lookup not added to that form is a BIG question...
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Sergei Kolodka mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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