So why do I get "Registrar request timed out. Could not connect." 10 out of
10 times when querying www.networksolutions.com for a Tucows registered
domain.?
Maybe you mean "*still* blocking" instead of "*used* to block" ?
Taco
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Taco Scargo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: NetSol Whois follies
> Taco,
>
> We *used* to block NSI whois explicitly, but in the past couple of months
> we have allowed it back in - unless they're exceeding some limits, which
> we've set quite high for them (since they are the largest producer of
> whois traffic on our systems) :)
>
> Charles Daminato
> TUCOWS Product Manager
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Taco Scargo wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Kai Sch�tzl, Berlin, Germany
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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