Timeline for Why is this question on "determing number of domains under a registrar" OffTopic for Serverfault?
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| Nov 3, 2015 at 23:42 | comment | added | Andrew B | To Jenny's point: I'm no Paul Vixie, but I do eat DNS for breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner when the occasional CERT advisory calls for it. I definitely do not consider this to be a reasonable approach. It is certainly possible to obtain the information that you're looking for if you know people who can provide the right data, but for most people (read: anyone without the professional contacts that come from a career in DNS, ISPs, Security, or similar) this is not a realistic approach. Your curiosity is best served by speaking to the person who wrote the original article. | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 9:31 | comment | added | user176193 |
This is what was cited as a reason for the Hold: Questions should demonstrate **reasonable** business information technology **management practices** -- Wesley Ways to get information is a management matter which is perfectly legit. I stand corrected on "Only a sysadmin would understand" let that read "a sysadmin would understand"
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| Nov 2, 2015 at 8:25 | comment | added | Jenny D | "Only a sysadmin would understand" is demonstrably untrue. It's generally speaking not sysadmins who code the DNS servers. And even if it were true, you are still not asking a technical question about how to administer systems - you are asking about ways to get information about other people's systems. There's a distinction there. | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 3:05 | comment | added | user176193 | I agree that general business questions need to be avoided (hiring, advancement). However note that: I am not asking for ALL ways to research a registrar eg: company SEC filings, annual reports etc (these are business filings and accountants handle this). My question was specific to computation of domains under a registrar and who they were. Zone Transfer is one way except that it doesn't work nowadays. Interpreting ICANN data is another way and this is a perfectly valid sys-admin job and on-topic because they are technical (only a sys-admin would understand)! | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 2:58 | history | answered | Ward - Trying CodidactMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |