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    Domain name database

    Hi there.

    Does anyone know of any central database of domain names that can be subscribed to? The reason is that we are creating our own specialist search engine and have been looking for this kind of source without being able to find anything. Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.

    Thanks

    Mark

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    Assuming that you are not a spammer or harvester, you used to be able to pay about $20,000 for a periodic dump of the whois data.

    For queries, there is always whois...

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    Shasta, thanks for the message. Could you point me in the right direction who to speak to about this? No, we are not spammers - we want to use the database as the strarting point for our crawlers for a business-related search engine we're developing. Thanks for replying

    Mark

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    whois database? i doubt there is any.

    for list of domains only you can check with:
    Verisign for .com .net
    PIR for .org
    Neulevel for .BIZ
    Affilias for .INFO
    The Global Name Registry for .NAME

    and subscribe to the ZONE file access, most wouldgive access for free (i know com net org does) not sure about others

    but for whois database i never heared of anyone that would give something like that
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    and subscribe to the ZONE file access, most wouldgive access for free (i know com net org does) not sure about others
    What do you mean by the zone file access ? are you gooing to be able to qurey the registry ? for exaple you can check if the domain is available or taken ?
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    you will have a file having a list of domains and pointed to what nameservers

    so u can have the list of ALL .com domains for example and hosted on what nameserver
    Bashar Al-Abdulhadi - KuwaitNET Internet Services Serving customers since 1997
    Kuwait's First Webhosting and Domain Registration provider - an ICANN Accredited Registrar

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    Thanks

    Bashar, that's great and answers my question. I'm not interested in the whois information - just in what domains are "live" so that we can have a starting point for our search engine.

    Thanks for taking the time to put this

    Mark

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    most welcome Mark and good luck
    Bashar Al-Abdulhadi - KuwaitNET Internet Services Serving customers since 1997
    Kuwait's First Webhosting and Domain Registration provider - an ICANN Accredited Registrar

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