grantw

Whois2 is 1000 per day, per ip address. It's meant to be used for registrars/whois lookup sites so each end user can get the 1000 lookups.

It's much easier these days to just buy droplists.

Grant

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buttontop

well if you wanted to sell the lists then say....is that ok.....well its not becuase whois2 is for outside your own use only so, someone could use your whois2 service to search but not for themselves and gain from it. is that the right understanding? how do other people get away with selling lists?

retired_member13

As of late (September / October) last year there were the following numbers of domains registered with Nominet:

7,147,682 .co.uk
478,773 .org.uk
115,914 .me.uk

And there were 7,792,148 domains in total in the UK namespace (including .ltd.uk, plc.uk, BL.uk, schools sites etc).

These figures were accurate on the day I got them, as they came direct from Nominet.

Regards

Ty

retired_member12

Why would you expect Nominet to get everyone to do that anyway? They're not here to provide lists. By all means buy a droplist, but other than that, there's no short cut I'm afraid, you'll need to do it yourself. Daunting yes, but no more than has been done by hundreds here already!

buttontop

DoubleTap i guess you have done a big search? did you start at a or 0? Nominet are there to sell domains and provide a service, by providing an open list of droping domains i think that it will only increase the amount of domains reg.

dotNetFreak

What is it you want to actually do?

If it's compiling a drop list - Don't bother, take Grant's advice from earlier and find someone who sells them, otherwise get a tag, DAC access, a copy of Cobol, plenty of coffee and knock yourself out

newguy

Most of the good names get snapped up anyway (and some of the not so good ones), so I think it'd be pointless nominet making a list, since the lists are already out there.

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Skinner

I haven't seen anyone willing to part with the whole 8m names, I'm pretty sure NO ONE has such a list as well, due to the way that new names are found, some must slip through the net.

It always makes me giggle when people say oh 6-8m look ups isn't bad, it would take you 3-4 weeks to look them up on Dac (without a delay quota). The issue that if you had the 6-8m domains you wouldn't be building the list in the first place, so instead you build a list, just getting ALL the upto 2-4 char domains in .co/me/org.uk would take 8-9 days running solid.

2 Char = 1300 x 3
3 Char = 48000 x 3
4 Char = 1800000 x 3

Building lists is far from easy, I do have better idea's but lack the time nor energy to implement them, but theres a starting idea

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buttontop

skinner do you mind sharing them? can you pm if you dont want to display in an open forum.

buttontop

how much do lists cost btw? as in whats the cheapest about?