Why not put a whois interface on your site instead of sending your customers elsewhere?
That's what we do. We use BW whois (http://whois.bw.org) and it works like a charm (except when we enable 'stripheader'. Then our output is something like you first described.) Hope this helps Brian O'Donnell Doctor PC www.doctorpc.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Delbridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 8:24 PM Subject: Re: 3rd-Party Whois Issue > > Why would they use a competing registrar's whois to lookup domain > > info at another registrar? > > We are a hosting provider. A courtesy service we offer to our hosting > customers is a universal domain name manager. The tool works with any domain > name on the planet, whether registered through us or another registrar, and > flags potential configuration errors and provides helpful recommendations for > making their domain names work with their web hosting accounts. > > Of course, such a tool requires a universal WHOIS database that can > successfully return info for any domain name, regardless of registrar or > TLD. That's where Allwhois.com comes in. > > Does this answer your question? > > Dave > > -- > > David M. Delbridge > President & CEO > Circa 3000 > http://www.circa3k.com > 775-832-2445 > > >
