If you are using whois to determine when an expired domain name becomes
available, you are putting yourself at a 24-48 hour (or more) disadvantage.
Use the OpenSRS client software to check availability in real time. If it
now shows available in whois, but unavailable via OpenSRS client, someone
else registered it while you were busy checking the whois data. In a day or
two you'll find out who registered it.
There are so many people tracking expired domain names, many don't last even
5 seconds after they are released, let alone two days.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Frank Lemire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: OpenSRS outage news...
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Frank Lemire wrote:
>
> > I've been monitoring OpenSRS for the past hour, and everything has
stayed
> > up and is functioning normally again on all servers.
>
> Looks ok from here, but I just noticed something interesting...I've been
> waiting for a certain domain (which had expired in December) to become
> available by checking it daily. Today, a whois finally shows that NetSlow
> had released it, but the opensrs system won't let me register it. A whois
> against whois.opensrs.net still shows it registered with NetSol. It also
> shows that the last time opensrs updated its whois database, was: Fri, 2
> Mar 2001 09:52:55 EST. Just curious; how often is it updated?
>
> James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am
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