Re: How do they look up the registrant?

From: Jim Archer (jim@archer.net)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 17:00:52 EDT


Hi Charles...

That must be a good bit of code, since whois is more or less free form. My
compliments to your developers. Does this make an occasional mistake?

Jim

--On Wednesday, May 16, 2001 4:55 PM -0400 Charles Daminato
<chuck@tucows.com> wrote:

> We query the whois of the current registrar, and extract the
> Administrative Contact's email address from there :)
>
> Charles Daminato
> TUCOWS Product Manager
> chuck@tucows.com
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Jim Archer wrote:
>
>> Hi All...
>>
>> I'm a bit confused about the transfer process. When I place a transfer
>> request OpenSRS sends an automated note to the admin contact asking their
>> approval and providing a web link. Sensible enough. But how does the
>> software know who to send the note to? This onformation is not stored in
>> the registry. Is there some dependency on someones whois or on NSI for
>> this?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>



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