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Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by ck2 on Monday April 04, 2011 @05:45AM (#2405946)
You cannot even trust registrars (netsol and godaddy are prime examples).

Spend a few hours and write your own code to do direct registry searches through the whois telnet query.

I wrote one myself, it's not that hard and you'll learn a bit.

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Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by Joakal on Monday April 04, 2011 @06:53AM (#2406043)
Doesn't the whois queries databases like GoDaddy?
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Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by ck2 on Monday April 04, 2011 @09:07AM (#2406270)
Only if you continue to resolve registered domains to the local registrar.

You don't have to resolve them that far to see if they are not-registered (or when they expire) just hit the main registry for the TLD you are interested in.

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