Subject: dictionary search of whois database
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/23/2001 22:15:18
Hi all, 

I want to grep .org for words in the dictionary that aren't used.  

I recently registered a domain and even more recently got sendmail
working, thanks very much to helpful souls here.  

I registered "schemamania.org" partly because "schema.org" was not
taken.  That is, Network Solutions has registered that name to itself
and failed to assign a host to it.  If you go to their web page to
register "schema.org" you'll be presented with many ugly alternatives
(myschmema.org and the like), without of course any hint that NS has
reserved the name for themselves.  

(George Carlin: God got the first name and the best one.  Think
of who you might have been if you had been "God"!)

If you write to NS about this, you'll be finger-pointed and
stonewalled and unhelped until you get No for an answer.  

I wrote to Ed Foster (of gripe@infoworld.com) next, asking if
he'd be interested in results of a search for domain names that are
1) ordinary words in the dictionary and 2) registered to Network
Solutions and 3) have no hosts.  Serves me right: he said yes.

So.  How can I do this with the least impact on whois.internic.net?  I
don't want to get anyone (except NS) mad at me.  

Oh, and BTW, I just looked at the 1.5 whois output and man page (I've
been used to 1.42).  How do I tell the RIPE server I'd like the
technical contact information?  Or is that an ignorant question?  I'm
surprised the man page doesn't mention an RFC, because IPv6 is an IETF
effort.  
 
Thanks.

--jkl