Finding "Name Servers" (not NS records) of domain name

Thu Aug 16 00:39:47 UTC 2012

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Anurag Bhatia <me at anuragbhatia.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone
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> I was dealing with a case where there's a mismatch in nameserver of a
> domain (nameservers set at registrar) and NS record on the delegated
> servers. Now NS on delegated servers are good and I am trying to create
> list of domains using wrong nameservers at registrar.

so you tested this with: dig +trace <domain> ?
or dig NS domain @TLD.server  && matched against dig NS domain
@domain-ns-server ?

(you didn't give much info to go on here...)

> Now as you would be knowing if I do regular dig with ns, it provides NS
> records. However I was able to find nameservers by digging gTLD root for
> gTLD based domains. This works for .com/net/org etc but again fails for say
> .us, .in etc. I was wondering if there's an easy way to do it rather then
> running script on thousands of domain names again & again digging registry
> specific nameservers?

+trace

> May be does someone knows/runs any simple server which can be whois'ed for
> some basic regular output which can be printed. Regular whois output for
> domain names seems hard to parse.

participate in weirds... try to make 'whois' better.

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> Thanks.
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