Hello. Understood. Thanks.
Is there a similar PUBLIC tool or URL for final users? JB At 15:09 25/10/01 -0700, you wrote: >You should never use whois to check domain availability because it doesn't >provide that information. Whois is designed to provide contact >information for existing domains. Whois is only as accurate as the last >time the registrar or registry updated it. For example, Verisign Registry >updates their whois database once every 24 hours or so. If a domain was >registered after the last whois update, it won't show up in whois but it >is already taken, so when you go to register it, it won't be available. > >Whois cannot provide real-time availability status. Registrars have a >tool to check real-time availability and this is the tool you should be >using. It only reports "taken" or "available". OpenSRS provides access >to this via the "lookup" command in the API. > > >On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jorge Biquez wrote: > > Hello. > > > > OK. I agree. I have to use Opensrs WHOIS ALWAYS...but what's a concern is > > that LOT of people is using NETSOL as their WHOIS and when they look for a > > domain, they see is free, they come to you to register the domain maybe > > next day and then you have to tell them that the domains is gone and that > > now "their" idea will cost them "just some hundreds" more.....
