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.
> 2) The domain is available, but is in the DNS. This would by all
> reasonable people be judged a miscommunication between the registrar of
> record and the DNS server, as there is data in the DNS that is not in
> any registrar.
Again, the method you describe is not a valid or method for determining if
domains are available. Nor is it one that any reasonable person would use
to determine if a domain was available for purchase. So it has no value
as a rationale to justify the claim that something has been misreported.
--Dean
