The whois lookup at Network Solutions' website seems to do recursion for
other registrars OK.
It does not do this OK for all Tucows domain (try looking one up at
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois and it just
times out)
It turns out, Yahoo, when you apply with them for an expidited listing
on yahoo.com, checks your listing at NetSol's whois page, and if nothing
comes up, they reject your listing and keep the $200 listing fee.
This is what happened to one of our customers this morning and he's not
too thrilled about it.
Anyone who has ever attempted to contact a human at Yahoo knows the
futility in this, they don't even respond to their email, ever. So there
is no telling them "use a real whois server, like easyWhois", etc etc
So the issue now is, why isn't it working between NetSol and Tucows when
it works for all other registrars, and the side issue, does anybody know
a backdoor into Yahoo (like they have a friend who works there) who can
communicate to someone that just because the NetSol whois times out and
fails ungracefully does not mean a domain does not exist.
-mark
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mark jeftovic
http://www.easydns.com
http://mark.jeftovic.net
