On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:32:33 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:04:31 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > > > You have yet explain how is it misreporting anything. It in fact > > > reporting that the domain is available for purchase. How is that > > > misreporting? > > > > Well.. let's follow this line of reasoning. If I mail to a domain, *and it gets > > a pointer to a mail server* then we can conclude one of the following: > > > > 1) The domain is *NOT* available for purchase, because it is *IN USE* by > > at least that mail server. > > No, that isn't correct. If you want to purchase a domain, you have to > check the registry database via whois.
Why? As you yourself said: "It is in fact reporting that the domain is available for purchase". If there's a nameserver for the domain, and there's an active mail host for the domain, that indicates an *IN USE* domain, as far as anybody can tell *ON THE SMTP PORT*.
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