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ldap: how to get a list of all domain names

I am a newbie with LDAP. I am trying to list all the NT Domain names. By NT Domain names I mean, the names of domains you would find on the LAN Network. You can observe this on windows xp machines when you try to log-on to that machine (i.e. the log-on dialog you get after hitting ctrl+alt+del). Usually we select the domain name in the l...

domain name prefix 'www'

In a domain name, mostly started with prefix 'www'.is it used like a standard? ifnot, let me know, why? ...

Any API to search a list of domain names?

Assume there is a list of domain names but you dont know whether they are taken by someone else. Assume that the list is too big that you dont want to manually type in each word and see if the domain name is available or not. How would you get around this issue? Is there a public API by a company that we can use in our program and see th...

Crazy question about website landing

Is it possible for crook to redirect website site/landing to your domain to elsewhere? Say, a visitor's intended website is, knowledgenotebook.com, but the crook redirected the user to google.com or yahoo.com or anything else? And doing so randomly, so, it can try to avoid detection... Thanks. ...

Apache virtual host configuration question

We have discovered that there is an old DNS entry registered somewhere in the world that redirects some old domain name to our servers IP address. This other domain is not registered to us, but Google is indexing the content of that site (which is just the content of our site) and then marking our site's content as a duplicate of that si...

Are email addresses allowed to contain non-alphanumeric characters?

I'm building a website using Django. The website could have significant users from non-English speaking countries. I just want to know if there're any technical restrictions on what types of characters an email address could contain. Are email addresses only allowed to contain English alphabets + numbers + "_" + "@" + "."? Are they al...

want a domain name registrar who doesn't require I have read thousands of words of contract

I do not like checking a box that not only do I agree to a contract but I "have read" it when (1) in fact it is thousands or tens of thousands of words long and (2) incorporates many other documents "by reference" which I am also supposed to claim I "have read". Does anyone know of a registrar that does not require this? GoDaddy is rea...