I've just noticed something very strange. We manage the earth-net.net domain on behalf of the estate of John Hunt. We recently paid NSI the regular yearly fee and check the whois database on a regular bases for the various domain under our administration. if you enter the following string whois -h rs.internic.net earth-net.net you get the following valid reply: Domain Name: EARTH-NET.NET Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS3.VRX.NET Name Server: NS1.VRX.NET Updated Date: 24-apr-2000 However if you add a period at the end of earth-net.net and issue the following whois request whois -h rs.internic.net earth-net.net. you get the following invalid reply: Domain Name: EARTH-NET.NET Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS2.CHANNELSPACE.COM Name Server: NS1.VRX.NET Updated Date: 24-apr-2000 ns2.channelspace.com has nothing to do with earth-net.net - so does anyone know what's up in this case? Regards Joe Baptista
