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[Jon Hebb <somebodyrocks AT gmail.com>]

It's a great improvement on searching OpenNIC Calum, and I, as well as I'm sure many other, members appreciate your contribution and work.

My only "issue" (which isn't really even an issue) I guess is that I'm used to search on modern search engines (say Google, Bing, etc.) and this one seems to be lacking a few things. Mostly it pertains to relevance of results - for instance, I search the phrase 'web hosting' - the first relevant result is 7 results down. A foreign language page (which isn't exactly the issue) ranks 7 results above the first actual result talking about the phrase "web hosting" - the foriegn page just appears to be using the word "web" a lot and is therefore shown above it. I hope this makes sense so far? I thought using quotes around my search ' "web hosting" ' would help by searching for the actual phrase, but the search just removes them. Maybe these are things you could improve, maybe not. Regardless, I like it and I'm already starting to use it a little bit!

Which leads me to another point...

One site I accessed through the search engine was sweetdemon's social blog (http://sweetdemon.geek/) - I can see one of his microblog posts saying: "I can’t imagine anyone will read this though… OpenNIC is dead really, at least when it comes to websites, no one uses them… :-/" - Hey sweetdemon, I saw it, and it was thanks to this new search engine we have. So I have one thing to say to the users of OpenNIC... for most of us, this is our hobby; for all of us, this is our community... it's only as strong as we make it. Setup an OpenNIC site, even if it's just a mirror of one of your public DNS sites... and then go out and try to visit other user's sites! I know it can be difficult, but this search engine is a great tool to help you! I've had some ideas up my sleeves for a couple of years to hopefully help bring OpenNIC a little closer together in this aspect, but if you know me, you know I'll probably never find the time!

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Calum McAlinden <calum AT mcalinden.me.uk> wrote:

On 16 February 2014 18:59, Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s AT gmail.com> wrote:
> You can do a zone transfer for each zone,
> dig @<nameserver ip> -q geek. -t AXFR > db.geek
> which will give you a list of every second level domain registered +
> every zone below that hosted by the nameserver that hosts the TLD. It
> seems that generally people who register second level domains also
> host the rest of their zone on the TLD's nameservers.

Thanks! I've just done that, now I'm trying to figure out how to
remove all those irritating parked domains. (Why would someone want to
put ads on an OpenNIC domain anyway?)

Calum McAlinden
http://www.mcalinden.me.uk



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