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Old 06-20-2002, 10:05 AM  
salsbury
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what do you want whois for? if you're looking for available domains, i'd suggest doing it from a unix shell.

edit a file with the list of domains you want to check. then run:

for i in `cat file`
do
host -t ns ${i}. >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo $i might be available.
fi
done

then whois only the ones that show up there. mucho faster!
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