Flippa verification using text record

[greggb]

I recently regged incen.se and would like to place it for sale at Flippa. The problem is that, with it being a Swedish domain, the whois record only shows a bunch of jibberish. So I added a text record like Flippa instructed me to do.

Now the $64 question is, what am I supposed to do next? I did this a couple days ago. I clicked the "recollect whois" button multiple times. Nowhere is there a button to instruct Flippa to go and check for the record, and this isn't evidently something Flippa plans on doing itself. And this isn't addressed in Flippa's oh-so-very-helpful FAQs.

So what's the point in adding a text record?

Is there a magical chant I need to recite to get to the next step?

I'm going to say again for the umpteenth time, Flippa, you really need to get your shit together. You're supposed to be one of the leaders in the domaining industry and your site has NEVER worked properly. This is only one of many problems with the Flippa site I've reported. None have ever been fixed, to my knowledge.

Why can't Flippa make its site work properly? Even Microsoft can eventually get its software to work, after releasing a few thousand updates.

Does Flippa believe that it can't afford to pay its so-called "coders" enough money to get its site functioning properly? Because things like this cost Flippa money. This is one of many times I've gone to Flippa with the intent of spending money and was unable to.

WTF Flippa?

 

[Hypersot]

welcome to flippa's verification system

 

[David Wells]

can you use email validation?

 

[Hypersot]

can you use email validation?

he said that the whois shows nothing of use , email ver. is useless in this case

flippa in general has a lot of problems with verifying ccTLDs

 

[greggb]

he said that the whois shows nothing of use , email ver. is useless in this case

flippa in general has a lot of problems with verifying ccTLDs

Flippa has problems doing things most companies figured out how to do with their websites in the 90s. Yes, I mean the 1990s. Last century.

I could write a script to verify a text record in less than 15 minutes. Literally, less than 15 minutes. I could fix most of the problems at the Flippa website in less than 15 minutes. But it takes Flippa an eternity to do anything. Seriously. They'll go out of business before they'll pay their "coders" to make the Flippa site do what it's supposed to do.

If any Flippa employees are reading this, you need to march your asses up to the place where all the higher-ups hang out. Open up the windows, let all of the crack smoke clear out of the room, and tell those people to fix their damn site.

It's absolutely ridiculous to see a website in such piss-poor operating condition, in the year 2016.

 

[Dotword]

Did you find a solution? When I pressed the "recollect whois" button my domain was then verified using a TXT record. So it appears the "recollect whois" button may re-check the TXT record as well. Not saying it will work for you, but it seems to have been the case with me.

 

[Kate]

A TXT record is just a type of DNS entry like the name servers.
Whois has nothing to do with DNS.

You can for example use: http://www.webdnstools.com/dnstools/dns-lookup
Or the command line in Linux:

dig -t txt domain.name

Or on windows:

nslookup
set type=txt <ENTER>
domain.name <ENTER>

 

[Dotword]

Thanks Kate but the point is Flippa appears to try two routes.

One route is via WHOIS (looking up the email and sending an email based on the contents there) and the other route is via DNS (where you add a TXT record).

So yes, agree DNS and WHOIS are separate but both are relevant to the Flippa verification process.

 

[Kate]

.SE, like other ccTLDs, restricts access to whois data.
You can query the whois server from the command line but you get partial output only.
If you want to see contact names, you need to go to the registry website iis.se and solve a captcha.
So it's hard to automate ownership verification. But it makes life difficult for spammers.

A few ccTLDs do not have a public whois server.

So yes, whois-based ownership verification (if this is what Flippa is doing) is hard to do across many different extensions, and doesn't scale well.

 

[platey]

np ers should be able to verify listings via np