At 10/26/04 12:00 AM, Nick Wilsdon wrote:
>I'm working on some scripts which automatically query the WHOIS for all
>the domains we offer as part of a shopping cart - usual stuff really.
>
>I noticed that the .tv registry has a limitation of 20 queries, how does
>one go about having this functionality on your website without exceeding
>the quotas set by the .tv or other registries. Do they or anyone else
>offer a subscription or paid service to access this information?
I don't know the answer to that question, but you can avoid this if you
do a DNS lookup to see if nameservers for the zone exist in the
appropriate TLD registry, instead of a WHOIS lookup.
It's free, much faster, and doesn't suffer from this problem. It's fairly
accurate (a little less accurate than WHOIS because it finds
expired-but-not-yet-deleted domains as available, but WHOIS can be wrong,
too. In any case, I assume you're telling people something like "these
related domains might be available, click here to check...").
--
Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
-- Darwin
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