A better approach is to get access to the root zone files (which I believe is possible) and compare the files locally. This will give you a better idea without having to point any traffic at the registry (or us)
There are many other places (folks on the list, and searches in the archives) that can provide the results/data you're looking for.... As an aside, thank you for updating your charset, my mail reader is happier now (even if the relationship between Micro$not and Netscrape isn't) Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ramy Nabil > Sent: September 9, 2002 1:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bulk Check > Importance: High > > > As I stated before, I need to extract the expired domains list > from the root zone files dropped domains > by checking if these dropped domains are available for > registration or not, so there are hundreds or even > thousands of these dropped domains daily. > Any suggestions? > > BTW Microsoft Outlook and Netscape Messenger are not always friends. > > Thanks, > Ramy Nabil > ------ > http://www.mydomreg.com > > Charles Daminato wrote: > > > <Ramil> again, having problems with mail sent from you... what > mail reader > > do you use? > > > > Why do you need to perform hundreds if not thousands of lookups > per day?� Is > > your volume that high? > > > > Charles Daminato > > OpenSRS Product Manager > > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > 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 o= > > btained from comparing the root > > zone files to extract dropped domains, so the domains are not > found in th= > > e 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.=A0 Communication with Tucows via the API > > > doesn't take that much bandwidth.=A0 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 th= > > e > > > DNS check (since the others are obviously registered and therefore > > > unavailable). > > > > > > Something like this would be pretty simple to code.=A0 If > you'd like so= > > me > > > custom development work done, I'm sure a number of the folks here > > > (myself included) would be willing and able to help. > > > > Charles Daminato > > OpenSRS Product Manager > > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
