How To Get Domain Whois Information From Whois Servers With RR?

Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Sun Jan 29 08:49:46 EST 2006


Hi Alex,

I did not dug in :-(
It's a pity...
May be you could test a string existence like "expir" and extract the  
date from the line if "expir" is found?
Test also for networksolutions, other extensions, and act accordingly...
Otherwise tell "Not available"?
Not really enjoying.

Le 29 janv. 06 à 14:42, alex wu a écrit :

> Eric,
>
> Thanks for your great assistance!  I played around for
> some domains and found that this projects might be
> quite complicated for me.  Here's what I found:
>
> 1. The output of the whois (tUrl) has a lot of format
> with different domain names:
>
> Some use "Expiration date:"
>
> Some use "Expiry Date........."
>
> Some use "Record expires on "
>
> Some do not mention the expiry date at all
>
> Some use "Connection refused connecting to
> whois.bulkregister.com"
>
> Some use "The domain name you have requested is
> registered with Network Solutions.
> VeriSign WHOIS:
> http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml"
>
> Etc... etc... etc....
>
> 2. Different domain extensions (e.g. .info, .ws, .tv,
> etc...) use different whois servers. I need to find
> out all whois servers!
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Alex
>
> --- Eric Chatonet <eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> It's very easy :-)
>>
>> function Expire pDomainName
>>    local tUrl
>>    -----
>>    put url ("http://www.whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=" &
>> pDomainName) into
>> tUrl
>>    return line lineoffset ("expires",tUrl) of tUrl
>> end Expire
>>
>> And, for instance:
>>
>> put Expire("runrev.com") into tDeadLine
>>
>> Le 28 janv. 06 à 12:01, alex wu a écrit :
>>
>>> I am thinking to use RR to get domain whois
>>> information (mainly the domain expiry date) from
>> the
>>> domain whois servers.  My idea is to monitor the
>>> expiry date of a list of domains.  When a stack
>> open,
>>> it will get the expiry date of the domains from
>> the
>>> corresponding whois servers.
>>>
>>> Anybody do that before? Or can anybody provide
>> some
>>> guidelines for me.  I really have no idea how to
>> get
>>> started.
>>
>> Best Regards from Paris,
>> Eric Chatonet
>>
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Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet
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