no whois info ?

Thu Dec 9 18:50:15 UTC 2004

>> shell1% whois vestigial3had.com
> ...
>> No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM".
>> What gives ?  How can their be no whois info anywhere ?
>
> Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10
> minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data
> is still updated once or twice a day. That means if spammer registers new
> domain he'll be able to use it immediatly and it'll not yet show up in
> whois (and so not be immediatly identifiable to spam reporting tools) -
> and spammers are in fact using this "feature" more and more!

You can also make whois information private, usually for an additional 
fee.