Please note that OpenSRS also limits the number of whois connections and
requests so everyone is still restricted.
Robert Rivers
Technical Operations
Matt Prigge wrote:
>
> > Ross, wouldn't it be a GREAT idea to offer resellers a whois proxy though
> > the OpenSRS API ? ;)
>
> Dont look now, but they already do. Well. Not through the API, but a proxy
> nonetheless. Their Whois server is recursive. Any external lookups it does
> would theoretically originate from its non-encumbered IP block.
>
> I doubt that youd be able to build a useful whois client into the API simply
> because the amount and type of information various registrars give out is
> often completely different from registrar to registrar.
>
> Correct me if im wrong on this one.
>
> - Matt
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