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Tom Johnson

In case someone asks about Domain Names....

Interesting Facts about Domain Names
http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-Names/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-Names.html

Want to claim a 2 or 3 letter domain name? You're out of luck, because every
possible 2 and 3 letter combination has been taken already, according to
this article. There are plenty of other intriguing tidbits about domain
names here.

-JTJ (the Lost Domain)

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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism
www.analyticjournalism.com
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the
existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
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Owen Densmore

In case someone asks about Domain Names....

Administrator

Nifty! Does anyone know how to get a snapshot of the DNS database?
I once did a very laborious dictionary scan via Whois that took a
couple of days .. see the description:
http://backspaces.net/blogs/Misc/DomainMadness.html

But, from the article:

"Around the same time I happened across the requisition process for
the .COM/.NET and .EDU TLD zones, so I made a request for access.
Soon enough I had the 3.5GB of .COM domain names, along with 650MB
of .NET, loaded into the database..."

..it looks like I could get a database of all the names. Anyone have
an idea how?

-- Owen

Owen Densmore
http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org

On Apr 13, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

> Interesting Facts about Domain Names
> http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-
> Names/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-Names.html
>
> Want to claim a 2 or 3 letter domain name? You're out of luck,
> because every possible 2 and 3 letter combination has been taken
> already, according to this article. There are plenty of other
> intriguing tidbits about domain names here.
>
> -JTJ (the Lost Domain)
>
> ==============================================
> J. T. Johnson
> Institute for Analytic Journalism
> www.analyticjournalism.com
> 505.577.6482 (c) 505.473.9646(h)
> http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com
>
> "You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
> To change something, build a new model that makes the
> existing model obsolete."
> -- Buckminster
> Fuller
> ==============================================
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

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Jim Rutt

In case someone asks about Domain Names....

Verisign makes the DNS "zone files" available as required by their ICANN
contract. Despite the language on the site, they pretty much HAVE to give
it to unless your reason is something like "spamming every email account on
earth".

http://www.verisign.com/information-services/naming-services/com-net-registry/page_001052.html

At 10:50 PM 4/13/2006, you wrote:

>Nifty! Does anyone know how to get a snapshot of the DNS database? I
>once did a very laborious dictionary scan via Whois that took a couple of
>days .. see the description:
>
><http://backspaces.net/blogs/Misc/DomainMadness.html>http://backspaces.net/blogs/Misc/DomainMadness.html
>
>But, from the article:
>
>"Around the same time I happened across the requisition process for the
>.COM/.NET and .EDU TLD zones, so I made a request for access. Soon enough
>I had the 3.5GB of .COM domain names, along with 650MB of .NET, loaded
>into the database..."
>
>..it looks like I could get a database of all the names. Anyone have an
>idea how?
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>Owen Densmore
>
><http://backspaces.net>http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com -
><http://friam.org>http://friam.org
>
>
>On Apr 13, 2006, at 8:56 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>
>>Interesting Facts about Domain Names
>><http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-Names/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-Names.html>http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-Names/Interesting-Facts-About-Domain-Names.html
>>
>>
>>Want to claim a 2 or 3 letter domain name? You're out of luck, because
>>every possible 2 and 3 letter combination has been taken already,
>>according to this article. There are plenty of other intriguing tidbits
>>about domain names here.
>>
>>-JTJ (the Lost Domain)
>>
>>==============================================
>>J. T. Johnson
>>Institute for Analytic Journalism
>><http://www.analyticjournalism.com>www.analyticjournalism.com
>>505.577.6482 (c) 505.473.9646(h)
>><http://www.jtjohnson.com>http://www.jtjohnson.com
>><mailto:tom at jtjohnson.com>tom at jtjohnson.com
>>
>>"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
>>To change something, build a new model that makes the
>>existing model obsolete."
>> -- Buckminster Fuller
>>==============================================
>>============================================================
>>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>>lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at
>><http://www.friam.org>http://www.friam.org
>
>============================================================
>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

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Jim Rutt
voice: 505-989-1115

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