.tv wishes you to login to their website to perform whois queries. This
allows them to a) limit the number of queries done to prevent data mining
(10 per day), and b) gather a list of interested parties potentially to
market to them in the future.
The Tucows whois works for all .tv domains registered via the OpenSRS
system. Any other domain (available or not) shows incorrectly (slight logic
problem with the whois.cgi, working on it!).
:)
Charles Daminato
Product Manager (ccTLDs)
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noah Couture [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: February 20, 2001 1:42 PM
> To: Charles Daminato
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: zonefiles for other domains
>
>
> Very helpful reply, thanks!
>
> Actually, in regards to .tv it looks like they want people to use some
> sort of api to do whois lookups. I wonder if there's any alternative?
>
> noah
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Charles Daminato wrote:
>
> > Each registries has their own rules and guidelines for
> releasing zone files.
> > Some times you can query the nameservers directly (ls -d) to
> get a listing
> > of names, some registries block this (such as .tv).
> >
> > It just takes some 'dig'ging :)
> >
> > Charles Daminato
> > Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > Behalf Of Noah Couture
> > > Sent: February 20, 2001 1:20 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: zonefiles for other domains
> > >
> > >
> > > What are the prospects for getting zonefiles for tlds such as
> .uk, .ca,
> > > .tv, etc? We do quite a few lookups at once, so even the
> lookup_all_tlds
> > > thing probably won't cut it for us.
> > >
> > > How are people doing this, if at all?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > noah
> > >
> > >
> >
>
