On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:46:45 -0400, Ian D wrote:

"Tom Willett" wrote in message
...

unknown.com is an actual, legitimate domain. If you are not employed by
that company, and are using their domain to munge your email address,
you are doing them a terrible disservice.

Thanks for the heads up. I had been using the same ficticious
domain since the late 90's, and check it about once a year to
make sure it hasn't become a registered domain.

You are referring to 'unknown.com'? You've been checking since the late
'90s? And you missed that it was registered in 1994?

| Domain Name: unknown.com
|
| Created on..............: Wed, Oct 19, 1994
| Expires on..............: Sun, Oct 19, 2014
| Record last updated on..: Mon, Jun 09, 2008

After seeing your post I decided to try it again, and it's now in use,
using different words, but forming the same combined name. Now
changed. I guess, unless you use total nonsense, it will eventually
be used, maybe even then.

If a 'whois' check on a domain name in any of the viable TLDs comes up with
NXDOMAIN, that only means a name has not been registered, not that a name
will not be registered. Unless you register a name yourself, you are just
"squatting".

Except if you use one of the TLDs designated as "reserved", as defined in
RFC 2606.

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Norman
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