The registration will fail at the end (when the registration goes to the registry), hence the need to prevent this at the lookup stage.
We're working with the suppliers to give an appropriate error message for a lookup, and trying to sort out a way to get the server to catch this (without losing the significant lookup speeds that we gained by bypassing syntax checking) Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Eric Paynter wrote: > Charles Daminato writes: > > > We recently made some changes server side to improve lookup speeds. > > Unforutnately, this also means that we're not checking syntax on lookups > > quite properly (i.e. if you lookup www.tucows.com, it will return available, > > even though tucows.com is taken). > > Will a registration attempt fail at the end? How far does the customer get > before they find out the domain is taken? > > -Eric P. > > -- > arctic bears - email and name services > 25 email addresses@yourdomain CA$11.95/month > DNS starting at CA$3.49/month - domains from CA$25.95/year > for details contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.arcticbears.com > >
