Comment by todd3834
6 years ago
If you want an alternative to searching with a registrar you can always type:
whois mysupergreatcoolappidea.com
into a terminal window and see if you get back a result
6 years ago
If you want an alternative to searching with a registrar you can always type:
whois mysupergreatcoolappidea.com
into a terminal window and see if you get back a result
WHOIS and DNS requests are made to nameservers run by the registry (not registrars), it's possible for the registry to front-run domains if they intend to.