bill@daze.net wrote:
> There is no universal whois database *anywhere*, no matter what some
> companies marketing departments may claim.
Have you looked at UWHOIS.COM? I see no affiliation -- not even banner ads
linking the site to any registrars. It seems that some folks are truly
attempting to fulfill a perceived need.
> What you need to do is use the domain extension to check the actual registry
> of the domain in
> question. Some registries will provide the information you seek, others
> won't due to privacy concerns (per laws or otherwise).
This is one of the very reasons we opted to write an agent that parses data
from a 3rd-party WHOIS service, rather than write our own complex solution.
We were being denied access to a WHOIS lookup (Ireland, I believe it was)
though ALLWHOIS.COM was returning useful results. Perhaps I didn't dig long
enough, but it seemed to make our path clear at the time.
Dave
--David M. Delbridge President & CEO Circa 3000 http://www.circa3k.com 775-832-2445
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