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- From: pjd@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter J Dotzauer)
- Subject: how to look up certain top-level domains at nic.ddn.mil?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.155944.22695@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 15:59:44 GMT
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- The general syntax for looking up top-level domains appears to be
-
- whois -h nic.ddn.mil xx-dom
-
- where xx is the top-level domain.
-
- However, in a few cases, you get secondary-level domains when you
- try to do that. 'su' doesn't give you the former Soviet Union, it
- gives you 'Solutions Unlimited' (su.com). 'yu' doesn't give you
- Yugoslavia, it gives you Youngstown University (yu.edu). And 'co'
- doesn't give you Colombia, it gives you some Colorado network.
-
- How do you handle these cases? I found out by chance that you can
- get the record for the former Soviet Union by asking about 'su1-dom'.
- But this pattern is inconsistent, since there is no 'yu1-dom' or
- 'co1-dom'.
-
- Can all that inconsistency be eliminated?
-
- One would think that 'xx-dom' only needs to be reserved for top-level
- domains, since for secondary level domains, you can ask about yu.edu,
- co.net, and su.com, etc.
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- Peter J. Dotzauer - pjd+@osu.edu - pjd+@ohstmail - osu-mps!pjd
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