I was looking up a .com to go with a .co.uk that I owned. It came up as registered, but with no WHOIS information and it only seems to be registered for one year. (It seems to be with an Italian register)
What's going on?
[whois.register.it]
Register.it Spa - Whois Server Version 1.2 The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET and .ORG domains.
No match for "widgets.com". >>> Last update of whois database: Mon Nov 29 12:37:25 2004 <<<
davezan
2:39 pm on Nov 29, 2004 (gmt 0)
Have you tried using the WHOIS lookup of that Italian registrar, assuming it's registered there?
folkbloke
9:15 am on Nov 30, 2004 (gmt 0)
The above is the reply from their WHOIS. It says that it's registered with them, but isn't on their database.
submitx
9:22 am on Dec 1, 2004 (gmt 0)
Maybe it was recently expired. Contact the regidtrar and ask them what the problem is.
DoingItWell
3:04 pm on Dec 5, 2004 (gmt 0)
Interesting point. With the .dk domains you can hide your registration info, provided the owner is a private person and not a company. I believe that this was introduced to limit the spamming which is based on such records. This might also be the case with .it domains?
