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"Being legal doesn't change the fact that parking domains makes you a bad person."

Bad person?

Well then in that case since you are being so absolute about that you might want to resolve the dns for a domain that you own that isn't going anywhere. Even to a parking page.

DNS server handling your query: localhost DNS server's address: 127.0.0.1#53

server can't find TWIDDLA.ORG: SERVFAIL

DNS server handling your query: localhost DNS server's address: 127.0.0.1#53

server can't find www.TWIDDLA.ORG: SERVFAIL

(query the server in the whois directly now):

nslookup

> server ASE-CONSULTING.COM

Default server: ASE-CONSULTING.COM

Address: 207.162.212.91#53

> www.twiddla.com

Server: ASE-CONSULTING.COM

Address: 207.162.212.91#53

www.twiddla.com canonical name = twiddla.com.

Name: twiddla.com

Address: 207.162.212.93

(ok it knows about the .com, what about the .org)

> www.twiddla.org

Server: ASE-CONSULTING.COM

Address: 207.162.212.91#53

server can't find www.twiddla.org: NXDOMAIN

Domain ID:D150745067-LROR

Domain Name:TWIDDLA.ORG

Created On:25-Jan-2008 10:00:15 UTC

Last Updated On:22-Aug-2011 12:22:43 UTC

Expiration Date:25-Jan-2017 10:00:15 UTC

Sponsoring Registrar:Omnis Network LLC (R101-LROR)

Status:OK

Registrant ID:OMNIS-1210584221

I'm sure that's an oversight on your part? And you feel totally entitled to that domain name since you own twiddla.com and of course nobody could possibly want the .org could they?




Thanks for the heads up. It was meant to redirect over to the .com. Fixing...




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