# Deleting a WHOIS record **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 9, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305 "2001-04-09T02:09:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305/1 "2001-04-09T02:09:20Z")
A domain name I own has a stale WHOIS record (an A record, I think) for one of the nameservers. When I purchased the domain (I was not the original owner) I transfered it to [register.com](http://register.com), and for some reason, this record does not show up on [register.com](http://register.com)’s Edit IP Addresses tool. Indeed, the [register.com](http://register.com) tech people insist it doesn’t exist at all. (of course, it does, you just have to do a WHOIS on the server name to see it. :rolleyes:) Anyway, the domain was originally registered with Network Solutions before I transfered it. Is there any way to contact NS to get them to fix this, or do I have to get somebody to listen to me at [register.com](http://register.com)? Sigh. Seems I have a weird domain problem every day of the week. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305/2 "2001-04-09T03:36:14Z")
Who is listed as the administrative and/or technical contact at the Network Solutions site? Or does it not show up there either? You will probably have to get the listed administrative/technical contact to make the changes. What is the domain name? Maybe I can help you figure it out better. E-mail me if you don’t want to put the domain name on the board or figure the Mods may disallow it. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305/3 "2001-04-09T04:03:30Z")
Hi, **Gut**. I am the administrative and technical contact for the domain, and I’ve made these types of changes before on other domains, so I don’t think that’s the problem. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you the domain because of a weird contractual thing (doing top-secret web development work…hehehehe) ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305/4 "2001-04-09T15:14:44Z")
Network Solutions has there own page for changing information, did you try it? ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305/5 "2001-04-09T15:40:23Z")
Have you tried making the changes at the Network Solutions site as **handy** suggested? Perhaps the ‘delete a host’ form at Network Solutions first then add the new correct host at [register.com](http://register.com). Certainly is weird that everything didn’t transfer over to [register.com](http://register.com) though. Top secret web development eh? Share with us when it’s done? ---
**Author:** ![Bobort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bobort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobort)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305/6 "2001-04-10T03:12:38Z")
When you do a whois query on the domain, is the whois server listed as [register.com](http://register.com) or NSI? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305/7 "2001-04-10T05:56:42Z")
Good question, **Bobort**. The WHOIS server being used is [whois.crsnic.net](http://whois.crsnic.net). Both whois [domain.com](http://domain.com) and whois [nameserver.domain.com](http://nameserver.domain.com) return [register.com](http://register.com) as the registrar. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305/8 "2001-04-10T06:04:27Z")
I don’t think the whois records have anything to do with A records, they just show who owns the domain, etc., and what DNS servers to refer to for finding A records and the like. One thing that happens a lot is that a DNS server might have an old version of the domain’s zone file if it isn’t updating for some reason. This problem came up a lot when the ISP I worked for centralized their DNS - we had people who were still using old legacy DNS servers that were still up but not updating anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Bobort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bobort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobort)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2001, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleting-a-whois-record/61305/9 "2001-04-10T07:06:37Z")
OK, so [crsnic.net](http://crsnic.net) is Verisign AKA Network Solutions. My advice would be to contact [register.com](http://register.com) and ask them why NSI still has the WHOIS record. You could go to NSI directly, but their customer service blows, especially (I would think) if you’re not actually a customer. The less you have to deal with them the better. But **Badtz** is right–if someone wants to know what your nameservers are, they’re going to look them up using DNS. I can’t imagine that having the wrong nameservers listed in the WHOIS database will cause you much grief.