There are hundreds of thousands of registered .com domains that are not
present in the root zone file. Some are on hold, presumably somewhere in
the occasionally years-long process of being released, but many are not even
expired.
The root zone is for DNS purposes, and while any functioning domain needs to
be there, it is not of much use to determine domain name registration status
or availability.
As a test, you can remove a domain from the zone file by deleting all of its
name servers. The domain will not function, for sure, but it will still be
registered, and will still show up in the registrar's whois database.
----- Original Message -----
From: "!Dr. Joe Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Marc Schneiders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Doytchin Spiridonov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: list of domain name
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> It is quite strange. I did some more checking, to see whether it is true
> that *all* three character .com are gone. A lot are *not* in the file,
> well some aren't. I did a check on some odd ones, like 7**.com. Those that
> are not in the file are now all registered, some as early as March. And
> with different registrars. Really beats me. And I was so happy I could
> register 7SR.com. Alas :-))
I have to contact network solutions regarding this. according to my whois
7sr.com is registered to a Mohammed Pervez via the CORENIC. And it too is
not in the dns and has no domain servers. I remember seeing this problem
before and it's not appropriate behaviour for a registry.
regards
joe
