Missing domain mystery...

[Tani Hosokawa]

On 2 Jul 1999, Michael Faurot wrote:

> David Lloyd <david at inxpress.net> wrote:
> : Okay, looks like it was a simple problem after all... Apparently the
> : customer didn't pay their InterNIC bill and they put it on hold.. That's
> : difficult since there is no way (apparently) to *tell* whether a domain is
> : on hold thru InterNIC.
> 
> In the past, I've been able to determine this by simply doing a
> "whois" on the domain.  If there was a problem, the whois data would
> show the domain "on hold" (or something similar).

They no longer do that.  This is because the InterNIC is completely
useless.  Anyone tried registering a domain in the past few months?

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tani hosokawa
river styx internet