no whois info ?

Fri Dec 10 01:03:10 UTC 2004

At 07:49 PM 09/12/2004, Peter John Hill wrote:

>Jeff Rosowski wrote:
>>
>>>>shell1% whois vestigial3had.com
>>>
>>>...
>>>
>>>>No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM".
>>>>What gives ?  How can their be no whois info anywhere ?
>
>How about the following... (note that just because someone is using 
>someone as their authoritative name server doesn't mean that the other 
>people (in this case kronuna.biz) have anything to do with it...
>
>[peterh at localhost ~]$ dig ns vestigial3had.com
><snip>
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>vestigial3had.com.      172800  IN      NS      ns1.kronuna.biz.
>vestigial3had.com.      172800  IN      NS      ns2.kronuna.biz.

I dont follow ?   It seems to me they do answer for the domain.
granite# dig vestigial3had.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
vestigial3had.com.      1M IN A         200.124.75.12

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
vestigial3had.com.      1M IN NS        ns1.kronuna.biz.
vestigial3had.com.      1M IN NS        ns2.kronuna.biz.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.kronuna.biz.        27S IN A        200.124.75.9
ns2.kronuna.biz.        27S IN A        219.154.96.29

granite# dig axfr vestigial3had.com @200.124.75.9

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> axfr vestigial3had.com @200.124.75.9
; (1 server found)
$ORIGIN vestigial3had.com.
@                       1M IN SOA       @ root (
                                         240420115       ; serial
                                         8H              ; refresh
                                         1M              ; retry
                                         1W              ; expiry
                                         1H )            ; minimum

                         1M IN NS        ns1.kronuna.biz.
                         1M IN NS        ns2.kronuna.biz.
                         1M IN MX        10 www
                         1M IN A         200.124.75.12
*                       1M IN A         200.124.75.12
a                       1M IN A         221.5.250.122
*.a                     1M IN A         221.5.250.122
a6                      1M IN A         221.5.250.122
*.a6                    1M IN A         221.5.250.122
e                       1M IN A         221.5.250.122
*.e                     1M IN A         221.5.250.122
g                       1M IN A         221.5.250.122
*.g                     1M IN A         221.5.250.122
i                       1M IN A         221.5.250.122
*.i                     1M IN A         221.5.250.122
m                       1M IN A         221.5.250.122
*.m                     1M IN A         221.5.250.122
mail                    1M IN CNAME     @
www                     1M IN CNAME     @
@                       1M IN SOA       @ root (
                                         240420115       ; serial
                                         8H              ; refresh
                                         1M              ; retry
                                         1W              ; expiry
                                         1H )            ; minimum

;; Received 1 answer (21 records).
;; FROM: granite.sentex.ca to SERVER: 200.124.75.9
;; WHEN: Thu Dec  9 20:00:30 2004