Missing domain mystery...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7lj17q$ugk$1 at phzzzt.atww.org>, Michael Faurot <look at my.sig> wrote:
>David Lloyd <david at inxpress.net> wrote:
>: Okay, looks like it was a simple problem after all... Apparently the
>: customer didn't pay their InterNIC bill and they put it on hold.. That's
>: difficult since there is no way (apparently) to *tell* whether a domain is
>: on hold thru InterNIC.
>
>In the past, I've been able to determine this by simply doing a
>"whois" on the domain.  If there was a problem, the whois data would
>show the domain "on hold" (or something similar).

They got rid of this in WHOIS, since domain speculators were abusing it.

You can now go to <https://payments.networksolutions.com> and enter the
domain, and you'll see whether its payments are up to date.

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