It never gets the wrong email address, if that's what you mean. Sometimes
new registrars come live that have a slightly different form (such as
having parenthesis around the email address - MAN did the code choke on
that one...). If a whois parse fails, it goes into a hopper where an
administrator manually gets the information.
If we find a specific registrar fails a lot (or all the time), we alter
the parser :)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
chuck@tucows.com
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Jim Archer wrote:
> 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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