Thanks Paul, But the API allows only to check one domain at a time, which will consume a lot of bandwidth to check several hundreds (or may be thousands) of domains daily. I think no need to do DNS queries as the lists wanted to be checked are obtained from comparing the root zone files to extract dropped domains, so the domains are not found in the root zone files and so sure they will not resolve.
Best Regards, Ramy Nabil ----- http://www.mydomreg.com Paul Chvostek wrote: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:25:43PM +0300, Ramy Nabil wrote: > > > > Is there any method to make bulk domain availability check that's it to check the >availability of > > several domains in one step and get the result as available list and unavailable >one rather than > > checking them one by one to save bandwidth of both sides. > > That is required mainly to extract the expired domains list from the dropped >domains. > > Any suggestions? > > You could always write one.� Communication with Tucows via the API > doesn't take that much bandwidth.� If you wanted to reduce the actual > checks for availability, you could do quick DNS queries on the domain > list first, then only check availability for the domains that failed the > DNS check (since the others are obviously registered and therefore > unavailable). > > Something like this would be pretty simple to code.� If you'd like some > custom development work done, I'm sure a number of the folks here > (myself included) would be willing and able to help. > > -- > � Paul Chvostek�������������������������������������������� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > � Operations / Abuse / Whatever������������������������� +1 416 598-0000 > � it.canada - hosting and development���������������� http://www.it.ca/
