Re: [cobalt-users] "Bug" in the Cobalt GUI

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:30 PM 3/10/00 -0500, you wrote:

> Would you mind sharing who the registrar was you used to acquire the domain
> name?  I just tried a whois on the domain and recieved the usual 'No Match'
> message.  Then again, I have no idea how long ago you registered this domain
> so it may not have made it to the root servers yet.

Here's the response I just got using <www.geektools.com/whois.html>:

> Server used for this query: [ whois.networksolutions.com ]
>
> Unable to find any information for your query!

Here's what I got using the BW whois script on my linux system:

> [admin admin]$ whois art--artist.com
> <http://www.shellserve.net/>
> connecting to whois.internic.net [198.41.0.6] ...
> Not found: art--artist.com.
>
> Whois Server Version 1.1
>
> Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
> with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
> for detailed information.
>
> No match for "ART--ARTIST.COM".
>
> >>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 11 Mar 00 03:10:22 EST <<<
>
> The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and
> Registrars.
>
> [admin admin]$

So it looks like there may indeed be a problem with the domain name.

For those who may be interested in it, here's the copyright information on 
BW whois:

> BW whois
>
> Copyright (c) 1999 William E. Weinman
> http://bw.org/
>
> Designed to work with the new-mangled whois system introduced 1 Dec 1999.

Jeff

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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>