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Re: no whois info ?
From: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi () 4ever de>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:21:53 +0100
abuse () cabal org uk (Peter Corlett) wrote:
william(at)elan.net <william () elan net> wrote: [...]Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That means if spammer registers new domain he'll be able to use it immediatly and it'll not yet show up in whois (and so not be immediatly identifiable to spam reporting tools) - and spammers are in fact using this "feature" more and more!This tempts me to hack something into Exim that does a whois on previously-unseen sender domains, and give a deferral if the whois denies existence of the domain. Is this likely to have any meaningful effect?
No. It depends too much on (a) the registry and registrar for the domain (b) overall whois availability to that TLD (not everybody uses whois) (c) your connectivity to the whois servers involved (possibly more than one) Yours, Elmar. -- "Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren." (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2 () ID-31 news uni-berlin de>) --------------------------------------------------------------[ ELMI-RIPE ]---
Current thread:
- Re: no whois info ?, (continued)
- Re: no whois info ? Rich Kulawiec (Dec 12)
- Re: no whois info ? Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Dec 12)
- Re: no whois info ? Janet Sullivan (Dec 12)
- Re: no whois info ? Steve Gibbard (Dec 12)
- Re: no whois info ? Alex Bligh (Dec 12)
- Re: no whois info ? Peter John Hill (Dec 09)
- Re: no whois info ? Raymond Dijkxhoorn (Dec 09)
- Re: no whois info ? Mike Tancsa (Dec 09)
- Re: no whois info ? Peter John Hill (Dec 09)
- Re: no whois info ? Elmar K. Bins (Dec 10)
- Re: no whois info ? william(at)elan.net (Dec 10)
- Re: no whois info ? Peter Corlett (Dec 10)
- Re: no whois info ? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 10)
- Re: no whois info ? Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Dec 10)
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- RE: no whois info ? Mike Tancsa (Dec 09)