Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:32:33 EDT, Dean Anderson said:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:04:31 EDT, Dean Anderson said:
> > > You have yet explain how is it misreporting anything.  It in fact
> > > reporting that the domain is available for purchase. How is that
> > > misreporting?
> > Well.. let's follow this line of reasoning.  If I mail to a domain, *and it
 gets
> > a pointer to a mail server* then we can conclude one of the following:
> >
> > 1) The domain is *NOT* available for purchase, because it is *IN USE* by
> > at  least that mail server.
> No, that isn't correct. If you want to purchase a domain, you have to
> check the registry database via whois.
Why?  As you yourself said: "It is in fact reporting that the domain is 
available
for purchase".   If there's a nameserver for the domain, and there's an active
mail host for the domain, that indicates an *IN USE* domain, as far as anybody
can tell *ON THE SMTP PORT*.

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