Missing domain mystery...

[Jay Koski]

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Barry Margolin wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
> GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
> *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
> Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
> 
> 


	You can also do this:

dig <domainname>

	Check for:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6  

	When a domain has been placed on hold, status seems to change to
NXDOMAIN. This is how I check for domains that have been frozen. I don't
know how accurate this is, but afaik, it works.