Jeff Rosowski wrote:
shell1% whois vestigial3had.com
...
No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM". What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere ?
How about the following... (note that just because someone is using someone as their authoritative name server doesn't mean that the other people (in this case kronuna.biz) have anything to do with it... [peterh@localhost ~]$ dig ns vestigial3had.com <snip> ;; ANSWER SECTION: vestigial3had.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.kronuna.biz. vestigial3had.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.kronuna.biz. [peterh@localhost ~]$ whois kronuna.biz [Querying whois.neulevel.biz] [whois.neulevel.biz] Domain Name: KRONUNA.BIZ Domain ID: D8290016-BIZ Sponsoring Registrar: TUCOWS INC. Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 69 Domain Status: ok Registrant ID: TU9XLFHXRK2QTZCE Registrant Name: domain administrator Registrant Organization: Tehillimzeiger Pushkaya Registrant Address1: Suite M-242, Christamar 43-B Registrant Address2: Avda. De las Naciones Unidas Registrant City: Puerto Banus - Marbella Registrant State/Province: Malaga Registrant Postal Code: 29660 Registrant Country: Spain Registrant Country Code: ES Registrant Phone Number: +371.7338359 Registrant Email: dljans@pisem.net <snip>
Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That means if spammer registers new domain he'll be able to use it immediatly and it'll not yet show up in whois (and so not be immediatly identifiable to spam reporting tools) - and spammers are in fact using this "feature" more and more!
You can also make whois information private, usually for an additional fee.