DAC: Need help

[mattonline]

Does anyone know 'when you log into the DAC'

dac.nic.uk 2043

what shows up when you enter it sussesfully?

 

[grantw]

nothing........I think, you just get the cursor, waiting for you to enter the domain.

Grant

 

[mattonline]

Thanks, are you sure on this? do you have access?

 

[grantw]

Yes and yes, just tried it myself to be sure.

Grant

 

[mattonline]

thanks alot :>

 

[mattonline]

just curious as i dont have access to the dac

whats the difference between whois.nic.uk and dac.nic.uk 2043

are they both the same, apart from

whois.nic.uk only allows you to perform one whois lookup and closes the connection

and whois.nic.uk closes the command prompt/telnet if a domain is avaialble or a .com/.net etc anything other than UK domains

(One last thing, is the whois.nic.uk and the dac.nic.uk the same layout once your in, its just a blank page which you can't see what your typing etc?)


thanks again

 

[seanc]

just curious as i dont have access to the dac

whats the difference between whois.nic.uk and dac.nic.uk 2043

are they both the same, apart from

whois.nic.uk only allows you to perform one whois lookup and closes the connection

and whois.nic.uk closes the command prompt/telnet if a domain is avaialble or a .com/.net etc anything other than UK domains

(One last thing, is the whois.nic.uk and the dac.nic.uk the same layout once your in, its just a blank page which you can't see what your typing etc?)


thanks again

internet.co.uk,Y,N,N,1996-07-30,2006-07-30,1,NOMINET

thats the "whois" report from the dac if the domain is registered


the dac is only for .uk

 

[mattonline]

oh so thats the whois report from the dac, and i'm gussing the whois report from whois.nic.uk is the full thing? (as i've been getting)

 

[aZooZa]

oh so thats the whois report from the dac, and i'm gussing the whois report from whois.nic.uk is the full thing? (as i've been getting)

The DAC and the whois server are different entities. A query issued to whois.nic.uk returns a result like this under a unix client without connection to the DAC:

MacBook:~/Desktop dalehubbard$ whois -h whois.nic.uk internet.co.uk

Domain name:
internet.co.uk

Registrant:
Nominet UK

Registrant type:
UK Limited Company, (Company number: 3203859)

Registrant's address:
Sandford Gate
Sandy Lane West
Oxford
OX4 6LB
United Kingdom

Registrant's agent:
No agent listed. This domain is registered directly with Nominet.

Relevant dates:
Registered on: before Aug-1996
Last updated: 22-May-2007

Registration status:
No registration status listed.

Name servers:
nom-ns1.nominet.org.uk
nom-ns2.nominet.org.uk
nom-ns3.nominet.org.uk

WHOIS lookup made at 18:48:22 07-Jun-2007

Using the DAC, this information is presented as a one-liner described by the poster above.