Exactly. The title &quot;How to Download a List of All Registered Domain Names&quot; is not correct.<p>For example in .com .net if a registrar puts a domain &quot;on hold&quot; that pulls it from the zone file. As such it will not appear in any zone file download. This is in fact a way for a company to keep a domain under wraps. As such:<p>register domain name (in .com )<p>pull the name servers<p>The name won&#x27;t be in any zone file. And will be off the radar until it has nameservers or until someone guesses to see if it&#x27;s been registered.<p>(Note other registries work differently (or the same) the above is specific to .com and .net)