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Re: domain isn't registred, but does exist in root-servers?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Sat Oct 23 19:07:48 2004

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 19:07:22 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0410240044010.29627@DMcLF.org>; from diederik@dmclf.org on Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:47:46PM +0200
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Isn't netsol now updating the com/zone nameservers in "real time" (5-minutely
intervals or some such)?  WHOIS is presumably still only updating twice
per day.  If so, then this phisher registered the domain just hours to
minutes ago.  FWIW "sedgq.com" has a SOA sequence of 2004102301 ("today").

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:47:46PM +0200, diederik@dmclf.org wrote:
> 
> just wondering about the following:
> 
> there is no whois-info for sedgq.com
> (response: No match for "SEDGQ.COM".)
> 
> but, host sedgq.com
> sedgq.com has address 66.218.79.155
> sedgq.com has address 66.218.79.147
> sedgq.com has address 66.218.79.148
> sedgq.com has address 66.218.79.149
> 
> how can this be?
> i mean, afaik a domein needs to be registred before its 'known'
> 
> this because of an email i received like:

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Henry Yen                                       Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer                       Hicksville, New York

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