Yup you were right. After applying to get access to the zone files, I received this response, "TLD Zone files do not show transfers between registrars. The z

Yup you were right. After applying to get access to the zone files, I received this response, "TLD Zone files do not show transfers between registrars. The zone files only provide current domains that are in OK status with their status of OK as well as the nameservers that are attached. It does not provide domains that are not in the zone." The only way I found to get the whole database is through the whois API, which costs way too much for a novelty project - http://whoisxmlapi.com/#/whois-database-download.php?rid=2 http://whoisxmlapi.com/#/whois-database-download.php?rid=2 Besides, someone already made a simpler implementation of the concept I was going for, and it serves the purpose well enough -- http://byedaddy.org/ http://byedaddy.org/