On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 03:49:11PM +0800, Wesley wrote: > First of all, I apologize for my lack of knowledge about the domain name > registration industry. No need. We all stumble in the dark :-) > I checked a domain name, datafarm.net, and its DNS > showed that there was no record (nxdomain) at the registry. No. This only means that there is no DNS record for that name. Very strictly speaking, that your name server doesn't know that there is one (but generally, DNS works globally, so). > However, when I > checked whois, it showed that the domain name was already registered at the > registrar. Why is this? And that means that the name (space) was reserved at some point. It doesn't mean it has to be used -- just that whoever reserved (registered) it can use it at some point in time. Cheers -- t
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