Saturday, June 22, 2002, 5:24:48 PM, David Delbridge wrote:
>> Why would they use a competing registrar's whois to lookup domain
>> info at another registrar?
> We are a hosting provider. A courtesy service we offer to our hosting
> customers is a universal domain name manager. The tool works with any domain
> name on the planet, whether registered through us or another registrar, and
> flags potential configuration errors and provides helpful recommendations for
> making their domain names work with their web hosting accounts.
> Of course, such a tool requires a universal WHOIS database that can
> successfully return info for any domain name, regardless of registrar or
> TLD. That's where Allwhois.com comes in.
> Does this answer your question?
So what you need to do then is fix your logic.
For com/net/org domains, query whois.internic.net.
That will give you a referral whois server, that is the appropriate
whois server you should send a second request to.
When you depend on a third party registrar's whois to give data for
other registrar's domains as a part of your system, you are setting
yourself up for the kind of problems you are experiencing.
There are whois clients in perl and other languages that will handle
the referral grabbing for you, as well.
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