Re: Knock Knock

> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:22:25 -0500
> From: Bob Luckin <[email protected]>
> 
> I'm rather too busy at the moment to comment in detail on the suggestions
> which have been floated during this discussion, but :-
> 
[...snip...]
> 
> The lists have been pretty quiet for a while now.  The last email I saw from
> the members list was in Sep 2004 when Koos asked if we wanted to renew
> wu-ftpd.net which was due to expire in 45 days.  Ted Keller said he thought
> we should, and asked if we needed to donate anything.  And that's where it
> finishes.  (Dunno if it was renewed or not.)
[...snip...]

Well, the name was renewed:

[DOMAIN whois information for WU-FTPD.NET ]
   Domain Name: WU-FTPD.NET
   Namespace: ICANN Unsponsored Generic TLD - http://www.icann.org
   TLD Info: See IANA Whois - http://www.iana.org/root-whois/net.htm
   Registry: VeriSign, Inc. - http://www.verisign-grs.com
   Registrar: DOTSTER, INC. - http://www.dotster.com
   Whois Server: whois.dotster.com
   Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS.LANDFIELD.COM 67.66.8.209
   Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS1.IDEFIX.NET 217.114.97.235
   Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS2.IDEFIX.NET 82.92.222.89
   Name Server[whois+dns with ip] NS.WU-FTPD.ORG 67.66.8.211
   Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
   Updated Date: 16-jan-2005
   Creation Date: 20-oct-2000
   Expiration Date: 20-oct-2006
[whois.dotster.com]

Registrant:
   Koos van den Hout
   Rubicondreef 13
   Utrecht, Ut 3561 JA
   NL

   Registrar: DOTSTER
   Domain Name: WU-FTPD.NET
      Created on: 20-OCT-00
      Expires on: 20-OCT-06
      Last Updated on: 23-DEC-04

   Administrative, Technical Contact:
      van den Hout, Koos  [email protected]
      Rubicondreef 13
      Utrecht, Ut  3561 JA
      NL
      +31-30-2851119
      +31-30-2817051


   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS.LANDFIELD.COM 
      NS1.IDEFIX.NET 
      NS2.IDEFIX.NET 
      NS.WU-FTPD.ORG 

End of Whois Information

-------------------------------------

However, the name servers are not responding...  Or do not seem to know
anything about the domain...

ghicks-vpn% nslookup wu-ftpd.net
Server:  ns.cadence.com
Address:  158.140.1.253

*** ns.cadence.com can't find wu-ftpd.net: Non-existent host/domain

Trying different nameservers yields the same results.

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

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