OT - Looking for a replacement for DNSStuff.Com

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David H. Lipman said:
DNSStuff.Com has become "greedy".

I am looking for a replacement service.
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Now, I admit I don't make heavy use of their services, but it
seems to me they are only charging for "premium" services or
service levels. The same free services are available as always,
or did you not scroll down past the first screenful of their
new page, which I agree, does have an air of greediness to it?
 
From: "Nick FitzGerald" <[email protected]>

| "David H. Lipman" wrote:
||
| Now, I admit I don't make heavy use of their services, but it
| seems to me they are only charging for "premium" services or
| service levels. The same free services are available as always,
| or did you not scroll down past the first screenful of their
| new page, which I agree, does have an air of greediness to it?
|

I am (was) already registered

"Sorry, you have reached the maximum amount of lookups as a registered user.
Membership is required for continued and unlimited access to these tools. Joining is simple.
 
From: "Nick FitzGerald" <[email protected]>

| "David H. Lipman" wrote:
|
|
| Now, I admit I don't make heavy use of their services, but it
| seems to me they are only charging for "premium" services or
| service levels. The same free services are available as always,
| or did you not scroll down past the first screenful of their
| new page, which I agree, does have an air of greediness to it?
|

I am (was) already registered

"Sorry, you have reached the maximum amount of lookups as a registered
user. Membership is required for continued and unlimited access to
these tools. Joining is simple.
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Hmm... How many lookups did you do man? :)



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David H. Lipman said:
DNSStuff.Com has become "greedy".

I am looking for a replacement service.
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Looks like I will also be looking for the same.

Was this some sort of recent change they've made?

How do they track usage by non-paying people?

Cookies? By IP?
 
From: "Virus Guy" <[email protected]>

| "David H. Lipman" wrote:
||
| What function of DNSStuff.com did you use the most, or that you find
| hard to replicate?

Basically, many of the tools on their main page.
 
David H. Lipman said:
DNSStuff.Com has become "greedy".

I am looking for a replacement service.
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Probably not available, Dave.
Three dollars a month or $36 a year shouldn't be too much for the kind of
service they deliver, IMHO. Think it over, before you discard.

Harry.
 
From: "webster72n" <[email protected]>


|
| Probably not available, Dave.
| Three dollars a month or $36 a year shouldn't be too much for the kind of
| service they deliver, IMHO. Think it over, before you discard.
|
| Harry.
|

We'll see...
 
David H. Lipman said:
| What function of DNSStuff.com did you use the most, or that you
| find hard to replicate?

Basically, many of the tools on their main page.
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I don't know about you, but practically the only tool that I used was
the whois (either to get info about a domain or an IP).

Prior to using DNSstuff.com, I would go right to arin, which
(depending on the IP) would usually then lead to a query at ripe or
some other nic. What I liked about dnsstuff is that you didn't have
to hunt for the right nic.

Besides whois, I might occasionally do a spam lookup, or a
geo-locate. But that's increasingly rare.

I don't use dnsstuff for ns lookups because I have a nice app for that
that's faster than calling up a web interface. Same for ping or
tracert.

What else would you need that, say, this portal doesn't do:

http://www.t-arn.com/cgi-bin/webutil/webutil.pl

?
 
"Sorry, you have reached the maximum amount of lookups as a
registered user. Membership is required for continued and
unlimited access to these tools. Joining is simple.
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Try closing and re-opening your browser, and maybe emptying your
browser cache.
 
I don't know about you, but practically the only tool that
I used was the whois (either to get info about a domain or
an IP).

Prior to using DNSstuff.com, I would go right to arin,
which (depending on the IP) would usually then lead to a
query at ripe or some other nic. What I liked about
dnsstuff is that you didn't have to hunt for the right nic.

Besides whois, I might occasionally do a spam lookup, or a
geo-locate. But that's increasingly rare.

I don't use dnsstuff for ns lookups because I have a nice
app for that that's faster than calling up a web interface.
Same for ping or tracert.

What else would you need that, say, this portal doesn't do:

http://www.t-arn.com/cgi-bin/webutil/webutil.pl

?
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Hi Guy,

Puzzled: webutil.pl does now show IP number.
?

J
 
From: "Nil" <[email protected]>
| Try closing and re-opening your browser, and maybe emptying your
| browser cache.

Done !

No difference :-(
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Hmmm... too bad. I got that same messages, but in my next browser
session, I was right back in there and I haven't seen the message
since. I wonder what the difference is?
 
Virus Guy said:
I don't know about you, but practically the only tool that I used was
the whois (either to get info about a domain or an IP).

Prior to using DNSstuff.com, I would go right to arin, which
(depending on the IP) would usually then lead to a query at ripe or
some other nic. What I liked about dnsstuff is that you didn't have
to hunt for the right nic.
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I use a Windows command-line whois client, which if kept up-to-date
will automatically find the correct registry. It's much faster than
dnsstuff, doesn't give cached answers, and doesn't mung the contact
email addresses.
Besides whois, I might occasionally do a spam lookup, or a
geo-locate. But that's increasingly rare.
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Same here. By using your own tools for most work and occasionally
dnsstuff when you really need it, you're unlikely to exceed their
query limit.
I don't use dnsstuff for ns lookups because I have a nice app for that
that's faster than calling up a web interface. Same for ping or
tracert.
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Dig is also a nice alternative to nslookup for name server queries,
but requires some practice and knowledge of how DNS works to get the
best out of it.
 
From: "Ant" <[email protected]>

< snip >

|
| Dig is also a nice alternative to nslookup for name server queries,
| but requires some practice and knowledge of how DNS works to get the
| best out of it.
|

And I'm not there yet :-(
 
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