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Re: [apps-discuss] "finding registered domains"

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> Tue, 12 March 2013 20:50 UTC

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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 04:37:10PM -0400, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

> I am probably making some assumptions here, about which I should be careful
> given the weird hat that's around here somewhere.  It's based on a property
> of WHOIS that exists now, at least with numbers: if I ask for 1.2.3.4, then
> I will get back the registration for the tightest containing subnet
> registration, and possibly all of them upwards.  If a WEIRDS server did the
> same with names (or could if asked), then example.com would be the returned
> result for foo.bar.example.com.

But why should you believe what example.com says about
foo.bar.example.com?  If we could believe that, we wouldn't need a new
mechanism.

A

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