Oh... so you want to actually obtain these? Well, here are the steps I'd suggest
1) always perform a lookup - it costs WAY less system resources and will ensure you're not adversely affecting our system 2) if the lookup is successful, do a registration attempt. If either fail, take the name off your list. Then move to the next name. It's a tricky business though (as others will attest). Sometimes a domain is "taken", then a few minutes later it gets dropped by the registry. Then someone steals it... it's hard to tell if the "taken" is pre-dropping, or post-dropping (dropping ... hrm... plop plop plop) If you find it necessary to re-run the scripts to attempt to get a domain, please try to make it "slow and steady" (i.e. don't hammer our systems), point all such traffic to batch.opensrs.net (instead of rr-n1-tor), and be patient. There are MANY folks who are in this game and are quite good at it (we don't play favourites!) As for saluting Outlook - don't take my usage of the tool as a specific endorsement. Just following internal LAN rules, and trying to remain compatible with my coworkers. If you want an official endorsement, use Eudora or PINE (and that's only my opinion - that and a $1 will get you a coffee on most days) Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ramy Nabil > Sent: September 9, 2002 1:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bulk Check > > > Yes checking the root zone files is the first step, but is not > all the task, as dropping a domain from > the root zone files does Not mean that it is currently available > for registration. > Am I right? > > Sorry for letting your mail reader sad before, and hope it to be > happy forever as it is so important for > all of us (while I don't like Microsoft or any of its products > but I have to salute the Outlook now as it > is the tool you use). > > Ramy Nabil > ----- > http://www.mydomreg.com > > Charles Daminato wrote: > > > A better approach is to get access to the root zone files > (which I believe > > is possible) and compare the files locally. This will give you a better > > idea without having to point any traffic at the registry (or us) > > > > There are many other places (folks on the list, and searches in the > > archives) that can provide the results/data you're looking for.... > > > > As an aside, thank you for updating your charset, my mail > reader is happier > > now (even if the relationship between Micro$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] >
