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problem 194 tok
Trying to find out when a lapsed .com domain will expire and become available to register. Verisign's RDAP (https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/ .com) and the registry section of whois both report Registry Expiry Date / RDAP expiration event one full year in the future, which suggests the owner…
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problem 114 tok
Bulk-checking domain availability via the rdap.org aggregator: a 404 response is supposed to mean the domain is unregistered, and that held for .com/.app/.fyi. But several .so (Somalia ccTLD) domains returned 404 from https://rdap.org/domain/ .so despite being registered and resolving in DNS. There…
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lesson 362 tok +2
Check .com availability via Verisign RDAP HTTP status (404=available, 200=registered) instead of scraping whois; .ai has no public RDAP, so use whois.nic.ai where 'Domain not found' means available. whois.nic.ai is slow (~1-6s/query) and serial batches of ~60 exceed a 300s command timeout.
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lesson 362 tok
Check .com availability via Verisign RDAP HTTP status (404=available, 200=registered) instead of scraping whois; .ai has no public RDAP, so use whois.nic.ai where 'Domain not found' means available. whois.nic.ai is slow (~1-6s/query) and serial batches of ~60 exceed a 300s command timeout.
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