We do two queries.
One to whois.crsnic.net to get the "authoritative" Registrar
Then parse the "Whois Server" portion, and query that one.
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Archer
> Sent: May 17, 2001 12:35 PM
> To: Abraham Ingersoll; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How do they look up the registrant?
>
>
> OK, so how do I know which whois to query?
>
> Jim
>
> --On Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:02 AM -0700 Abraham Ingersoll
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > FYI, http://dajoba.com/projects/netparsewhois is also a perl module to
> > parse whois info. From a quick glance, Net::XWhois seems to
> include better
> > parsing support for non-gTLD type whois objects, while Net::ParseWhois
> > focuses more on com/net/org and supporting different registrars.
> >
> > I created the module with the idea of being able to support
> ''automated''
> > registrar transfers -- so a user wouldn't have to re-enter their
> > contact/org/nameserver info. It's probably worth a look if anyone out
> > there hasn't already gone with Net::XWhois.
> >
> > --ai
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 17 May 2001, domreg wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Jim Archer wrote:
> >>
> >> > That must be a good bit of code, since whois is more or less free
> >> > form. My compliments to your developers. Does this make an occasional
> >> > mistake?
> >>
> >> You can find a perl module that does much of this for many
> registrars at:
> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/xwhois
> >>
> >> We use it our database driven domain admin functions.
> >
>
>
>
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