SV: GET all top domain entries

[Johnny Damtoft]

hi Jim

I think that i saw a zone file for .COM or .NET somewhere (on an FTP) witch
was owned by the root-servers.

What about downloading this one, and there you go??? Or do we have to query
the DNS for every domain ?

/ Johnny



> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra:	Jim Reid [SMTP:jim at rfc1035.com]
> Sendt:	25. september 2000 12:19
> Til:	Sin Hang Kin
> Cc:	comp-protocols-dns-bind at uunet.uu.net
> Emne:	Re: GET all top domain entries 
> 
> >>>>> "Sin" == Sin Hang Kin <kentsin at poboxes.com> writes:
> 
>     Sin> Dear, The domain name registration info is very useful : I
>     Sin> want to build a regional directory for all internet
>     Sin> sites. However, I found looking on the search engines were
>     Sin> difficult task. Can I get the domain names from DNS or other
>     Sin> sites?
> 
> In theory yes, in practice no. Most top-level domains refuse zone
> transfers, expect from the TLD's name servers. There are two reasons
> for this. The first is the load of servicing zone transfers. Some
> zones - like .com - are huge and will take forever to transfer. So it
> makes sense to restrict transfers to the servers that have a valid
> reason to do so. The second reason is spam prevention. By denying the
> public access to the whole zone, it makes life harder for spammers to
> harvest domain names and bombard the world with junk.
> 
>     Sin> Moreover, can somebody tell the morality of using these data?
>     Sin> Is it immoral to use it for building a regional directory?
> 
> No. In fact, regional directories already exist at places like RIPE,
> ARIN and APNIC which handle address allocation and maintain things
> like whois databases. Some TLDs do this too.
>