It is definately Tucows. They are blocking whois requests from Network
Solutions. I don't like that, but Tucows told me I have to live with it.
Taco Scargo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 1:31
Subject: Re: NetSol Whois follies
> > The whois lookup at Network Solutions' website seems to do recursion for
> > other registrars OK.
> >
>
> No, it doesn't. ;-) They display awful behavior at
> whois.networksolutions.com for some days now. They even think that a
> domain I registered two days ago for a client with INWW is still available
> and they haven't put up the domain on the root-servers either - but it
> shows up at nsiregistry.net.
> If I query others of our domains at whois.networksolutions.com it just
> times out after a while with a "complete". So, it's definitely not Tucows,
> it's the whois there. This already happened several times during the past
> months.
>
>
> Kai
>
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