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Post by <kazer.. » Sun, 29 Aug 1999 04:00:00



Apologies if this is the wrong group to ask in, but it seemed the most
appropriate.

Is there any means of obtaining the entire list of domain names under an
upper-level domain like .com? Any method, be it some nslookup command (that doesn't
clog up the root servers, preferably), or a web or ftp site would be good (the last
two being far better).

Alternatively, is there any means of obtaining the entire whois database?

Remove the spamguard if you want to reply by mail.

Thanks in advance.

 
 
 
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.com or whois database

Post by Barry Margoli » Tue, 31 Aug 1999 04:00:00




>Apologies if this is the wrong group to ask in, but it seemed the most
>appropriate.

>Is there any means of obtaining the entire list of domain names under an
>upper-level domain like .com? Any method, be it some nslookup command
>(that doesn't
>clog up the root servers, preferably), or a web or ftp site would be good
>(the last
>two being far better).

There's a place on the NSI web site where they tell you how you can submit
a request to get access to their top-level domain zone files.  If your
reason is acceptable, they'll give you a password to their FTP site and you
can download it.

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1. Whois database access or VB programmatic access to Whois?

Hello,

I posted a series of questions regarding the COM.ZONE (10/12/99 -
"Questions re: COM.ZONE - does anyone understand this file".

Thanks to those who answered, especially Barry Margolin.  I'm slowly
getting a better understanding of how this all comes together (or
doesn't).

As I stated in the earlier message, I am analyzing domain names for a
project.  I found that the COM.ZONE database (gotten from NSI) is
incomplete because it only lists domain names that are up-to-date.
However, if a name is not found in COM.ZONE, that doesn't mean that
the name is available - because it still might be found in the Whois
database.  Example:  00C.COM ("zero" "zero "c") is not in the COM.ZONE
file, but is found in a whois search.

New questions:

        Does anyone know of a way to download the whois database?  I
had to sign all kinds of stupid forms (in my opinion) so that NSI
would let me have access to the COM.ZONE.

        So how do I get to download the whois data?

If that's not possible, would anyone know of a method for a Visual
Basic programmer to write code to do a query of the Whois database?

In a perfect world it would look something like this:

        Function WhoisResult (DomainName as String) as String

                WhoisResult = GetWhoisData (DomainName)

        end function

Thanks in advance for any assistance/guidance.

Sincerely,


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