We've had a customer try to register some .asia domains that were showing as available on the WHOIS lookup, but OpenSRS rejected the registrations with a "Domain taken" message.
Looking at the domains the customer was trying to register (e.g. "online-casino.asia") I suspect the domains are either reserved or have pending sunrise applications. However there's nothing on the WHOIS to indicate this - they show up as "not found" just like domains that are available. We use the OpenSRS API lookup tool to check domain availability where possible, but as far as I can see .asia isn't one of the TLDs available via this tool. We therefore have to fall back to the WHOIS server (whois.nic.asia), but as we've now discovered this isn't always reliable. Any ideas how to reliably lookup .asia availability so that we can avoid selling domains that can't actually be registered? Is there perhaps an alternative WHOIS server that includes sunrise registrations, or could .asia be added to the API lookup tool? Matt Skymarket _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
