Re: NSI does it again

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick () namesecure com>]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Keith McCallion wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
>
> > It seems that NSI, without informing anyone decided to remove the Status
> > line from Whois lookups. Just a heads up....
>
> Ugh! They better at least send a notice to the customer. We have customers
> who don't pay for their domain names and wonder why it isn't working --
> being able to see a Domain Status: On Hold gave us the answer. We've lost
> that ability?

Yes and no. You can still get this information by doing a "dig" for the
domain on one of the root servers. 

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