It took me about an hour to compile my list -- it has all of the gtld's and most of the country codes.
I went one step further: for TLDs with web interfaces only, I built a response that returns the URL.
.. and some are just not available anywhere.
-- Lynn
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 02:48:20 -0600, inbox@fpgatools.com wrote:
>
> Agreed. The biggest problem is in compiling the list of
> servers and maintaining them as they do change over time.
> Also there are many "oddballs" if you want to support
> domains beyond the ICANN TLD's as many of these do have
> fully operational Whois servers but you need to know, and
> maintain, their unique mappings.
>
>
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 23:40:08 -0800
> "Lynn W. Taylor" <Lynn@BusCom.net> wrote:
>>It's a very nice offer -- as are the other suggestions.
>>
>>Trouble is, people offer free resources, and then the
>>cost of providing them or the work involved in
>>maintaining them gets excessive. Then they go away.
>>
>>Or, they move from one domain to another, without
>>warning, and they appear to go away.
>>
>>So, given that this is the developers' list, and if you
>>make your own you control your own.
>>
>>The WHOIS protocol is described in RFC-954. It's very
>>simple.
>>
>>Telnet to port 43, send the domain name, get back a
>>response.
>>
>>The response will be a whole bunch of text. If you go to
>>whois.crsnic.net, the only thing you are interested in is
>>a line that says "Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net" --
>>this tells you the registrar's whois.
>>
>>Discard the rest, repeat the query using the server
>>above, and you're done.
>>
>>If you don't see "Whois Server:" then you're probably
>>done.
>>
>>You will need a table of top-level-domains, and the
>>associated whois server. Not all top-level domains have
>>them.
>>
>>You can test this with your favorite telnet client. Just
>>remember to connect to the whois port.
>>
>>-- Lynn
>>
>>On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 02:22:06 -0500 (EST), Emil wrote:
>>> Hi there!
>>>
>>> Please check www.webquery.biz redirect
>>> to(http://www.referrer.com/webquery/webquery2.php) for
>>>whois domain names.
>>> I'm currently adding more domain extension.
>>>
>>> Please send me your input or suggestion to make it
>>>useful for the community.
>>>
>>> Once I complete adding domain extension for query. I
>>>will provide a search
>>> box for your website. Ofcourse free to use.
>>>
>>> Cheers for now,
>>> Emil [at]needguide.com
>>>
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>>>> It used to be simple, now it isn't.
>>>>
>>>> As a general rule, you need to query the registry whois
>>>>server for each
>>>> TLD, that will give you the whois for the appropriate
>>>>registrar, and you
>>>> need to query again.
>>>>
>>>> -- Lynn
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:49:00 -0800,
>>>>feedback@webdivisor.com wrote:
>>>>> Hello:
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know where I can find a list of WhoIS servers
>>>>>who support
>>>>> all domain extension
>>>>>checks. Unfortunately whois.opensrs.net only
>>>>> supports .com, .net. org, and .edu.
>>>>> -Thanks
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