3 ms·
I would guess they are doing whois queries, but be careful that you don't inadvertently get yourself blocked. Another point of caution-- perhaps it is just urb
by khanklatt 15y ago
I would guess they are doing whois queries, but be careful that you don't inadvertently get yourself blocked.
Another point of caution-- perhaps it is just urban legend, but I've heard that some shady registrars capture the domain you're looking up temporarily so you can't register it anywhere else.
That (possibly unreasonable) fear is why I find myself checking the existence of a domain from the CLI before I actually use my registrar of choice to register it.
- dholowiski 15y agoI think I will just do a DNS lookup, unless I can think of anything better. If a domain name hasn't been resolved then it probably hasn't been registered. I heard that same urban legend... actually years ago that seemed to be true, but recently I've noticed that not happenning.
- profitbaron 15y agoThat isn't an urban legend - I know of 2 registrars that used to do it - One of them used to do it so you would have to acquire them off them for an increased price. Network Solutions were exposed for doing this.
- grah4 15y agoNot a myth. It happened a few years ago to me for several (totally random) domains. Since then I've also changed to checking from the CLI.