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Re: Root Server Problems
- From: Alex Kamantauskas
- Date: Wed Jan 05 15:05:25 2000
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jay Stewart wrote:
> It's my understanding that NetSol stopped publishing payment status
> information in the whois database, because domain resellers were
> registering domains on speculation, then re-registering them when they
> were deleted from the database. The "on-hold" flag in the database was
> being used by speculators to determine when to re-register the domains
> so that a legitimate domain seeker could not get them.
The "on-hold" flag is still available:
$ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com "dump foo.com" | grep \(29
(29) parentdom: HOLD-PAY |
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