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Why does it say magic.com is free? Or am I doing it wrong?

• jcrocholl 17y ago
  Because magic.com doesn't have an A record. If you click on the "free" link, the registrar (moniker.com for now) will tell you that it's taken. I know this is disappointing, but I haven't found a good way to do bulk whois for millions of names, DNS is much easier.
  • compumike 17y ago
    How about doing a DNS lookup but for a SOA record type, instead of an A record? I'm fairly sure that will either give you a record or an NXDOMAIN. $ dig magic.com SOA [snip] magic.com. 21600 IN SOA auth03.ns.uu.net. hostmaster.uu.net. 990605 21600 3600 1728000 21600
    • jcrocholl 17y ago
      That sounds good, I'll look into it.
• sammcd 17y ago
  Ya, I got excited and tried to buy magic.com too :(