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Cameron Walters replied on November 13, 2009 18:59 to the problem "unavailable domains shown as available" in Domainr:

Hey David, sorry for the incorrect results. There are a number of other topics on this support site explaining why some results on Domainr may be inaccurate.

For these domains in particular, it appears that they are unused and simply owned by someone, with no services of any kind. This means they are likely to be for sale, but not available to simply register for the $10 you might expect.

Again, sorry Domainr got your hopes up about 4-letter domain names being available for normal registration.

Cameron Walters replied on November 13, 2009 18:53 to the idea "Show all .extensions" in Domainr:

Hi Chris,

We've heard several requests for this feature and we like the idea. It may become an option in the future the next time we add features to Domainr.

Cameron Walters started following the idea "Show all .extensions" in Domainr.

Cameron Walters replied on October 05, 2009 00:38 to the problem "two letter .me domains not supported by register" in Domainr:

The entire .me domain does not support two letter registrations. Domainr shows that in its interface. See http://domai.nr/ho.me for an example.

Cameron Walters replied on October 05, 2009 00:17 to the idea "save me from registering my brand as an angry nation" in Domainr:

Hey Kevin, that’s a good idea. So as not to discriminate, we would want to add the country info to all of our domains.

We’re doing some coding on Domainr today, so we might try to sneak it in.

Cameron Walters replied on September 17, 2009 05:14 to the question "How to register a .ne domain ?" in Domainr:

It is particularly hard to register domains in Niger. The main reason is that the government has decided that .ne is only available to people or businesses that have a local presence there.

I’ve heard a story that a person who was well prepared—he even had business documents showing a presence in Niger—still ran into difficulty with the registrar (101domain.com). I’m not sure if he ever got his domain.

Cameron Walters replied on August 24, 2009 07:25 to the problem "domain registration site not working" in Domainr:

I've just done some investigation and can't find any sites that actually register domains under .ga right now.

Several registrars claim support, or have pages that would serve to register .ga domains, but don't actually allow registrations. I was unable to discover why both 101domain.com and Marcaria cannot register under .ga.

Have you been successful finding anything about registering a .ga domain?

Cameron Walters replied on July 30, 2009 06:36 to the problem "False negatives" in Domainr:

Hi Ben,

As you can see in a few other threads, we use DNS as our indication of a domain’s registered status.

You are correct that whois is the ultimate authority on availability, but Domainr does not have access to a whois service. Domainr is a search engine reporting the best results it is able to obtain through DNS.

Cameron Walters replied on July 09, 2009 15:29 to the problem ".ec domains must have between 3 and 65 characters" in Domainr:

It appears that you're right. Even the official registrar requires at least a 3-character domain. We’ll be sure to update Domainr’s data. Thanks for letting us know.

Cameron Walters replied on June 05, 2009 13:55 to the question "Can someone help me with the domainr JSON API?" in Domainr:

Ruby's Net::HTTP requires that you send url.query specifically. Check out the Readme in the RDoc and you should be able to figure it out.

A comment on the question "Handling the case of "former employees"" in Get Satisfaction:

As a former employee of Get Satisfaction, all the content I created no longer shows my employee badge. I'm not too concerned about that, since I believe the content stands on its own. – Cameron Walters, on April 20, 2009 17:49

Cameron Walters marked one of Lane Becker's replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Lane Becker replied to the question "Why is Get Satisfaction acting so irresponsibly?". Cameron Walters and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Cameron Walters replied on April 02, 2009 22:16 to the problem "a.be too short" in Domainr:

Thanks for reporting this one to us. And thanks even more for providing a reference where I could confirm the problem. I've fixed this in our data and it will go out with an update soon.

Cameron Walters set one of Cameron Walters' replies as an official response to "devilsoulblack" in Domainr

Cameron Walters replied on March 26, 2009 00:00 to the problem "devilsoulblack" in Domainr:

Hey Alfredo,

What I see is that DNS isn't returning a useful response for orenses.net. The interface in Domainr reflects that properly in two ways:

First, at the orange arrowhead in the image below, the status square in the search results is only half full. Second, the message states "this domain might be available," not "this domain is available" as with available names.

A comment on the question "Is it possible to use a Satisfaction widget over HTTPS?" in Get Satisfaction:

If GSFN had favorites, this would be one for me. – Cameron Walters, on March 24, 2009 07:48

Cameron Walters started following the question "Is it possible to use a Satisfaction widget over HTTPS?" in Get Satisfaction.

Cameron Walters replied on March 19, 2009 21:00 to the update "We’ve added IDN support!" in Domainr:

By the way, you can type a ™ into a web form like Get Satisfaction’s by using "™"

Cameron Walters replied on March 19, 2009 20:59 to the update "We’ve added IDN support!" in Domainr:

This one? ™ I'm not sure why that character isn't coming through the search (or Get Satisfaction for that matter). We'll look into our character normalization code and see why the ™ is being eaten.

Cameron Walters replied on March 05, 2009 17:50 to the problem "domain too short" in Domainr:

Hey Chris, sorry to get your hopes up about that great domain. We've double checked with with the Luxembourg registrars and 3 characters is the minimum.

We're deploying a fix within the hour. Thanks for letting us know.