Well - whois isn't necessarily authoritative for domain availability ...
but...
You can get the list of all ICANN accredited registrars from ICANN and do
some poking around :)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, dnsadmin wrote:
>
> Until a domain appears at whois.corenic.net -- you can sometimes find out
> which registrar registered a new domain by querying whois.opensrs.net or
> whois.networksolutions.com, or whois.register.com etc.
>
> Usually a new domain will appear in the whois database of the registrar
> BEFORE it appears anywhere else. In this case, if you know a domain is
> taken, and you need to find out which registrar registered it, theoretically
> you could query every whois server known and see if one of them replies with
> the information.
>
> In this case:
>
> Does anyone have a comprehensive list of all publically available whois
> servers?
>
> I figure some of the more popular are:
>
> whois.opensrs.net
> whois.networksolutions.com
> whois.register.com
> whois.inww.com
> whois.bulkregister.com
> whois.namesecure.com
> whois.registrars.com
>
> I know I'm missing dozens more..
>
>
