On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.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. > 2) The domain is available, but is in the DNS. This would by all > reasonable people be judged a miscommunication between the registrar of > record and the DNS server, as there is data in the DNS that is not in > any registrar. Again, the method you describe is not a valid or method for determining if domains are available. Nor is it one that any reasonable person would use to determine if a domain was available for purchase. So it has no value as a rationale to justify the claim that something has been misreported. --Dean