Getting domain names registered since TIMESTAMP

Question

Is there a single, or small group of, root servers I can send a query along the lines of,

return domain names created after TIMESTAMP

If so, how would I ask for it ?
I came across something called "zone-transfer" but it looks unreliable and likely to have me running into permission problems.

// Edit -- I want to get the list of .COM domains created since $TIMESTAMP. I'm not asking about programming issues - parsing the file and so on - just about where to find the data.

Answer 1

Several root name servers accept zone transfers (for instance f.root-servers.net). But you do not need it, the entire zone file is distributed with FTP.

It does not include an history. You have to parse it and manage the history yourself. See for instance my talk at ICANN.

The last domains created in the root name servers were RS (Serbia) and ME (Montenegro) in september 2007.