[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There is no universal whois database *anywhere*, no matter what some > companies marketing departments may claim.
Have you looked at UWHOIS.COM? I see no affiliation -- not even banner ads linking the site to any registrars. It seems that some folks are truly attempting to fulfill a perceived need. > What you need to do is use the domain extension to check the actual registry > of the domain in > question. Some registries will provide the information you seek, others > won't due to privacy concerns (per laws or otherwise). This is one of the very reasons we opted to write an agent that parses data from a 3rd-party WHOIS service, rather than write our own complex solution. We were being denied access to a WHOIS lookup (Ireland, I believe it was) though ALLWHOIS.COM was returning useful results. Perhaps I didn't dig long enough, but it seemed to make our path clear at the time. Dave -- David M. Delbridge President & CEO Circa 3000 http://www.circa3k.com 775-832-2445
