: You want to build a website that stores all DNS records? Well in the 90's you could have run commands such as host -l -v -t any com and get a list of all the `.com' domains along with

@LarsenBagley505

You want to build a website that stores all DNS records? Well in the 90's you could have run commands such as host -l -v -t any com and get a list of all the `.com' domains along with some other information. That no longer works.

You can sign up with Verisign and purchase .com .net .org and maybe some other zone files but that's certainly not all the domains in the world which you seem to want records of. You would need quite a few servers to process those files since they are usually gigabytes of data. This isn't efficient, especially since the files are updated daily and you wouldn't really be able to keep your site updated cheaply.

The easiest method is to simply write a server side script to do the nslookup on the IP or domain provider and return the results. One such site is network-tools.com/nslook/ and there are many more like it. Is that what you were asking about building?

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