.com or whois database

[Barry Margolin]

In article <jlZx3.5067$p44.151073 at carnaval.risq.qc.ca>,
 <kazerooz at jason.spamguard.MAGELLAN.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
>Apologies if this is the wrong group to ask in, but it seemed the most 
>appropriate.
>
>Is there any means of obtaining the entire list of domain names under an 
>upper-level domain like .com? Any method, be it some nslookup command
>(that doesn't 
>clog up the root servers, preferably), or a web or ftp site would be good
>(the last 
>two being far better).

There's a place on the NSI web site where they tell you how you can submit
a request to get access to their top-level domain zone files.  If your
reason is acceptable, they'll give you a password to their FTP site and you
can download it.

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