From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 11:44:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A4F37B405 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:44:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from voo.doo.net (voo.doo.net [81.17.45.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1554943F13 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voo.doo.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0OJi96Z016232; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:44:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@schneiders.org) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:44:09 +0100 (CET) From: Marc Schneiders X-X-Sender: To: Lorin Lund Cc: freebsd Questions Subject: Re: Off topic - How to find the owner of an unhosted domain In-Reply-To: <3E32DBED.6040709@infowest.com> Message-ID: <20030124204013.R16139-100000@voo.doo.net> X-Preferred-email-to: marc@schneiders.org X-Other-email-to: marc@venster.nl X-Organization: Venster (Zeist - NL) X-URL: http://www.bijt.net/ X-SOA: A.ROOT-SERVERS.ORSC. X-OS: FreeBSD: The Power to Serve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, at 11:48 [=GMT-0700], Lorin Lund wrote: > The domain my client wants is not available. But there is no contact > information in the whois > database. There is a date that it was registered. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Is this what you get when doing on the command line: whois domain.com ? You should get all the data, using the whois that comes with FreeBSD, if it is a com, net, org, info, biz, us, de, uk, plus a lot more domains. Unless it was just registered. Some registrars do not update their databases in real time. So that is really the only situation in which whois could have no info on the registrant. Unless the registrant is trying to remain anonymous. But then you would get some (useless) data still. I understand you don't want to give us the domain name. But can you give us the output without the name? Do include the TLD (com or net or whatever). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message