dns look up

[jomoal99]

Can somebody please tell me about any free dns lookup service that i novice like me can wrap his website around,- i need this as an altenative to the conventional whois - because i need it for for ccltds???/

[Siliconjunkie]

Not sure what you are looking for. DNS and whois are different things.

Can you explain a bit more?

[John Prophet]

are you just talking about registering a domain name and having different names that lead to that domain?

[Beemer]

http://www.dnsstuff.com
Should fit your bill.

Cheers!

[noprob]

Can somebody please tell me about any free dns lookup service that i novice like me can wrap his website around,- i need this as an altenative to the conventional whois - because i need it for for ccltds???/

had to seek out to understand myself.

P.S.nice link Beemer!

[jomoal99]

what i mena is if i wnated to regsiter a .com or .co.uk name, i can enetr those names into a whois and it would come back to tell me that yes, the name was available or not.
now if i wanted to register a .com.ng name and eneterde it in a whois it would not recorgnise the name(it's a ccltd).
But on somebody's website he had a search engine which combines the whois facility with a sort of dns check so if you eneterd a co.uk or .com name it would work as a whois and if you enetered a .com.ng name it would come back with the details of the name servers and so on- showing it was not available, if it was laready taken- and it would use that as a prove that the name was available or not.

what i'll like to know is how did he do it?