Search Again: Re: Domain name problem From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 Time: 12:04:32 pm On 05/18/00 at 13:38, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: > Global Homes Webmaster said: > > >NS records for it, name servers outside your network can't know that your > >servers have authoritative data for it, so they can't resolve it. It's a > >Network Solutions problem because they are responsible for adding domains > >registered through them to the root servers. > > God bless America.. someone here did not pay the bill... I thought this > might be it, but unfortunately there is no way to find out from a whois > or NetSol's web site whether anyone paid. Aha! That would 'splain it. Used to be NetSol's Whois database had a status field that showed things like if a domain had a hold on it (for non-payment, etc.). I guess they can't be bothered with that kind of trivial stuff any more... Maybe they justify dropping it as a 'privacy' thing, but IIRC they didn't ever specify the reason for a hold, just that one existed. Christopher Bort

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