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Why do name servers occur in whois as well as DNS?

I am trying to understand why the name servers for a domain occurs in both whois information and DNS information. For example, the following whois output shows that ns1.google.com, ns2.google.com, ns3.google.com and ns4.google.com are the name…
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How do I install an rwhois server?

I want to run an rwhois server as an ISP, to manage customers' WHOIS information. ARIN's implementation seems to be abandoned or lost. Is that still the server to run? Are there updated instructions or support available anywhere?
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How can I get WHOIS records for domains with similar domains?

When I make a WHOIS query for google.com I get the following list of similar domains back: $ whois google.com Aborting search 50 records found…
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For the .com TLD, is there any known change tracking for WhoIs information?

A client exposed information regarding what will become a controversial website in the domain WhoIs after she purchased it from auction. Is there any whois cache that will detect, save, and share the old whois information for that domain, after it…
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DNS Nameserver updates affected by TTL? or is it just A records, MX etc?

The TTL has been set to 1H, so that IP changes for example.com can be made more quickly. The registrar has been configured with ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com, verified using WHOIS lookup. ns1 and ns2 are based in Texas. We're moving all of our…
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Difference between admin-c and tech-c

I am confused about the role of the admin-c, especially in relation to the tech-c. RIPE defines the admin-c as a technical contact that is onsite. "admin-c" (administrative contact) and "tech-c" (technical contact) are network contacts, required…
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How can I limit the output of the whois command?

How do I get only the owner/orgname from a PTR whois lookup? I don't need all the other entires, just the part about ownership (google in this case). Edit /usr/bin/whois 74.125.236.52 or any ip get OrgName # # Query terms are…
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Strange redirect to localhost! http://dp.000.in/?

I just accidentally typed imadb.com and after 2 redirects (I think) I ended up at: http://dp.000.in/ You can imagine my surprise when I noticed I was seeing my webpages on my local host! Can someone explain why dp.000.in points to the local host and…
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Where can I get fresh routing registry data for IP:ASN and AS lookups?

I'm interested in maintaining a copy of the type of data available at ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/rr/arin.db however the arin.db file seems to be missing quite a few resources which are available via the ARIN Whois-RWS search. While it isn't out of the…
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Modifying IP Whois results?

Okay, I recently bought a dedicated server from santrex.net If you go here: http://domaintoip.com/ip.php?domain=188.72.215.27 It displays the whois information for that IP, santrex.net I want to modify my whois information, so that it displays my…
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Is it valid for a domain to have whois but no NS or A record?

I've been doing system administration for a couple of decades and my understanding has always been that: whois was allocated as part of domain registration (obviously not all TLDs have whois, but for those that do) part of domain registration is…
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Hostname lookup fails, name server set up correctly

We have a small network, with a main server (hosting our own website and functioning as a name server) and some web hosting servers. Since yesterday we have an issue with a domain of a client of ours that we host on our network. The webserver is set…
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Communicating with ARIN Whois server

Connecting to the ARIN Whois server via telnet works like so: telnet whois.arin.net 43 Once connected, getting information about an IP address is equally trivial: n 119.194.24.35 A lot of information is shown about this specific IP including…
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How to automatically get abuse email address based on IP address

Unfortunately I've been the target of a DDoS attack. The attackers are abusing DNS services of others. I'd like to email the owners of these DNS services, but I don't want to manually run 500+ whois lookups. Is there a way / script to automate this…
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How to register a domain when you have no phone number?

Registering a .com requires a phone number for the whois records, but what do you do if you have no phone number? (It's an academic question for me right now, but I did spend a significant amount of my life with internet access but no phone number.…
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