Mark Jeftovic wrote:
I figured it was something like that... I seemed to remember it was EasyWhois that originally put me in touch with EasyDNS.That was indeed us. We had to discontinue the service because the NetSol registrar whois started metering whois lookups and the tracking was maxing us out too quickly each month.
Other whois servers have since began following suit (bulkregister either meters or bans outright).
Bleh. Makes sense.
For me, I just need to check against the data crsnic offers (NS and end dates), although I wouldn't mind watching contact information as well with OpenSRS sponsored domains.I've since thought of ways to optimize that, and even considered bringing back tracking and just not offerring it on NetSol domains (yet another reason to move away ;)
Perhaps it would help if you proxied the requests through partners willing to run WHOIS scripts on their websites, or even took advantage of the thousands of open proxies out there which spammers so regularily abuse?
Hope so. I'd be willing to throw a bit of money at it, although in all honesty, not a whole lot since it probably wouldn't cost all that much to have one of my programmers whip up something that would meet my specific needs.So maybe we will bring it back...
If you put it back with a "Donate" button, I'd be sure to test the donate functionality of the website though.
Unfortunately, I'm not that handy myself... I can debug logic bugs in code, but I'm not familiar enough with PHP to sit down and write something myself.But, if you are handy with php you can download the toolkit and code your own fairly easily, http://phpwhois.com
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