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Re: scanner<->dns

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu Mar 3 21:20:50 2005

Date: 4 Mar 2005 02:19:58 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <42273109.8050007@socal.rr.com>
Cc: vickyr@socal.rr.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


>Just wondering if there is any way I could use a scanner (I have a home
>grown script for this) that would go thru the DNS registries from some
>public source, scan for keywords in the domain name.

If you just want the list of domain names and not the rest of the
whois data, it's not hard to get access to the zone files for most
gTLDs.  I arranged to get com, org, net, edu, biz, and info.

In each case you have to sign and fax back an agreement to the
registry in which you promise not to do naughty things with the data.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
"I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.


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