5 Jan
2000
5 Jan
'00
8:32 p.m.
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Jay Stewart wrote:
It's my understanding that NetSol stopped publishing payment status information in the whois database, because domain resellers were registering domains on speculation, then re-registering them when they were deleted from the database. The "on-hold" flag in the database was being used by speculators to determine when to re-register the domains so that a legitimate domain seeker could not get them.
The "on-hold" flag is still available: $ whois -h whois.networksolutions.com "dump foo.com" | grep \(29 (29) parentdom: HOLD-PAY |