This issue seems to affect prefixes as well as suffixes, tucows.com.com is available... tucows.com.com.com is also available, and so on, and so on.
-- John Keegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://RackShare.com > From: Charles Daminato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 00:05:45 -0500 (EST) > To: Eric Paynter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: searching for TLDs incorrectly > > 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]
