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Some TLD registries have policies to prevent registrars from front-running their clients by squat-registering their domain searches. But, if you're working in
by bleepblorp 6y ago
Some TLD registries have policies to prevent registrars from front-running their clients by squat-registering their domain searches.
But, if you're working in a TLD where Freedom<tm> is more important than actual free markets, do your domain checks against the root servers yourself with dig +trace.
- thiht 6y agoFor most non-ccTLDs, that's regulated directly by the ICANN. It's pretty easy to file an ICANN complaint, FWIW.
- fanf2 6y agoBe warned that a domain can be registered without appearing in the DNS. In recent years IANA has run a whois server that provides referrals to the appropriate registry, so in most cases a whois client can start by querying whois.iana.org and follow whois: or refer: lines to the right whois server without leaking too much information. (whois is still cleartext and a very crappy poorly-defined protocol...) FreeBSD's whois mostly works by following referrals with heuristics for filling in the ghen that doesn't work; Debian's whois mostly uses a built-in database of whois servers and heuristics for finding them.