On 19/8/24 16:11, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 03:49:11PM +0800, Wesley wrote:
First of all, I apologize for my lack of knowledge about the domain name
registration industry.
No need. We all stumble in the dark :-)
I checked a domain name, datafarm.net, and its DNS
showed that there was no record (nxdomain) at the registry.
No. This only means that there is no DNS record for that name. Very
strictly speaking, that your name server doesn't know that there is
one (but generally, DNS works globally, so).
However, when I
checked whois, it showed that the domain name was already registered at the
registrar. Why is this?
And that means that the name (space) was reserved at some point. It doesn't
mean it has to be used -- just that whoever reserved (registered) it can
use it at some point in time.
Cheers
I think that a simpler way of explaining What Tomas has said, is that
someone has registered the domain name, but, has not set up web hosting
for it, so, the domain name is registered, but, the person who
registered it, has not set up a web site for it.
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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