George,
That is an excellent idea, but I would limit the tool to domains registered
through OpenSRS.. Make the service free but you the domain must be
registered through us for the service to work. We can not be responsible
for the (in)accuracy of whois data with domains registered through other
registrars.
In addition the format of the whois data is quite different for some
registrars, and is subject to change without notice which could break the
parsing of data from their whois servers. Making reliability of this tool
for data from other registrars somewhat difficult.
If there is enough interest, I can start writing a tool like this that:
Has a database of Domain Names and Contact Email Addresses
Monitors each domain in the database and if there is any change in the WHOIS
info the contact email address in the program database is notified of the
change.
Obviously there is the issue of the number of requests to the OpenSRS whois
server, and the program would have to be throttled appropriately to not over
query the server.
Michael
Michael
George Kirikos writes:
> Hello,
>
> With all the domain thefts going around (I just got a call from someone
> about yet another one today), I wanted to make a product suggestion. A
> professional-level WHOIS monitoring system. Given Tucows is a
> registrar, they'd have better ability to do this than others who have
> tried (e.g. WHOIS.SC has a free system), via the batch-pool, etc.
>
> For domains that are already at OpenSRS, the monitoring is simple (just
> add an event manager that is triggered when a domain change is made,
> such as unlocking, nameserver change, or WHOIS contact/registrant
> change).
>
> For domains not yet transferred into OpenSRS, but that one wants
> monitored, I'm not sure of all the info the RRP access gives one for
> .com (the thick registries obviously provide more details), but if one
> can monitor the nameservers, lock status, last updated date and
> registrar (which is info available from Internic), that would likely
> provide sufficient security.
>
> Pricing would hopefully be reasonable...contact via various methods
> (email, pager, etc) and monitoring frequencies.. perhaps team up with
> those "uptime" monitoring services, that already have the
> infrastructure in place.
>
> In an industry where price competition is fierce, I think security is
> one of the ways to add value (a lot of folks considering getting a Mac
> or moving to Linux, for example, to avoid Windows security problems).
> Already a lot of the best Internet companies use OpenSRS because of
> that (e.g. Microsoft.com is registered at OpenSRS) and also large banks
> (e.g. Citicorp.com), and I doubt that is by random chance.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
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