On Tue, August 7, 2007 4:46 pm, Jim Lucas wrote: > Are all domains that use ccTLD's created/formatted like other not > ccTLD's just with the .uk or > whatever tagged on the end? No. Every ccTLD country is free to sub-divide as the government of that country sees fit, so long as the sub-divisions are valid domain names. And one or two countries have essentially "sold" their ccTLD to commercial interests. > Something like this > > your example > stut.co.uk > > is this the base for your domain. Basically, would this be > > stut.com if it were a dot.com ?? Sort of. But that just happens to be how the UK government CHOSE to set things up, and cannot be extrapolated to any other ccTLD. > you registered stut.co.uk, right? or was it something else? I don't think our Stut registered stut.co.uk at all. I think he's stuck with stut.net because the stut.co.uk owner won't sell (or is asking WAY too much). This is just my guess based on Stut saying he curses the stut.co.uk owner daily. Adding a dig or whois command is likely to be fraught with difficulties. First and foremost, your performance is going to SUCK. Secondly, there is nothing to rule out the following scenario: user@xxxxxxx is a valid user email user@xxxxx is not a valid user email user@xxx is also a valid different user email So finding c.d as in DNS as a A record, or MX or CNAME proves nothing at all about the validity of the user, nor their email, nor the domain name being "likely" to work for email. And you certainly cannot draw many conclusions about the domain name, other than that some DNS record somewhere will attempt to route traffic to it. There's no guarantee that the IP address that DNS eventually maps to is actually going to be valid and have a working machine at the other end. There are enough real-world issues here, spanning multiple technologies and "standards" that you're in for a world of hurt if you try to "solve" this problem. ymmv naiaa -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
