Whois broke for international domains or “How I registered sex.com”

    I did not find information on this problem, it seems that a breakdown just happened. The bottom line is that Russian registrars (at least webnames.ru and ripn.net) see international domains in the zones com, net, info and others as free. At the same time, Webnames.ru allows you to register any such domain, even though sex.com Why
    this problem is connected, i.e. from whom they take whois data, from networksolutions or from someone else, I don’t know. I will supplement the article on the information obtained from the comments.



    Letter:
    Dear% username%!

    Congratulations!
    Domain sex.com has been successfully registered for 1 year.

    The domain data in the WHOIS database will be available within 1-2 days.

    The domain will be registered on the DNS servers of the zone during the day.

    FAQ on registering domains:
    www.webnames.ru/faq.pl

    In the section "My Account" / "My Domains"
    (http://www.webnames.ru/scripts/user_domain_list.pl)
    you can at any time:
    - change contact details of your domain
    - change or add DNS server
    If you use our DNS servers, you can add and change
    entries in the zone file, manage mail redirection, add and change
    third-level domains.

    Thank you for choosing WebNames.ru for domain registration.

    For any questions related to domain registration and payment for services,
    please contact support@webnames.ru

    * * *

    Congratulation at any time !
    The domain sex.com has been successfully registered for 1 year.

    - Regards,
    WebNames.ru Support


    UPDATE: Domains from the list of registered disappeared, money just returned to the account
    Refund for unverified account services # 898507 (registration of domain sex.com for 1 year)

    There were no alerts, letters, apologies, news on the site.

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