A customer says they want to park a domain with us. In theory, they should have registered that domain already. But when I look it up with whois, I get this:
jcastro@localhost:~$ whois notactuallythedomaininquestion.br
% Copyright (c) Nic.br
% The use of the data below is only permitted as described in
% full by the terms of use at https://registro.br/termo/en.html ,
% being prohibited its distribution, commercialization or
% reproduction, in particular, to use it for advertising or
% any similar purpose.
% 2017-11-07 09:26:29 (BRST -02:00)
% blocked_word: CG
% Security and mail abuse issues should also be addressed to
% cert.br, http://www.cert.br/ , respectivelly to [email protected]
% and [email protected]
%
% whois.registro.br accepts only direct match queries. Types
% of queries are: domain (.br), registrant (tax ID), ticket,
% provider, contact handle (ID), CIDR block, IP and ASN.
What does it mean? A truly nonexistent domain doesn't give me that blocked_word line, instead it gives:
jcastro@localhost:~$ whois randomwordsalad.br
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% No match for randomwordsalad.br
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The difference between the two is that a name with "blocked word" WHOIS output can't be registered, while one with "no match" could be registered, although not being registered at that point.