On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:17:13PM -0700, Dave Warren wrote:
>
> Long time ago on this very list somebody posted a company that offered
> free whois monitoring. I thought it was EasyDNS, but I can't find any
> reference on http://www.easywhois.com/ -- Basically, I want to be
> notified if the WHOIS changes on any of my domains. Does anyone know of
> such a service? Or equally as good, a program I could throw on one of
> my servers to do the job without using somebody else's resources?
I posted something a while back (at least a year ago), re an email robot
that would do whois lookups and send the result back via email in
ascending order of expiry date. I even included a "Donate please" line
in the outbound messages, and had all of three donations. I think I
grossed something like US$50 altogether.
I took the robot down in December because it was getting blocked by the
various registrars doing rate limiting, and aside from you (Dave) and me,
the only person using it regularly was some guy in Hong Kong and another
in Argentina who tried to circumvent my own rate limiting by sending
mail to the robot from ten or twelve different email addresses. Of
course, THEY never thought to donate.... :-(
I recently wrote something new for myself that only inspects data from
whois.crsnic.net ("Updated" and "Expiration" dates, DNS servers and
registrar) to watch for changes to my own customers' .com and .net
domains. It looks at other thick registries' whois too. It records
stuff in MySQL, and sends warning emails to locally-recorded contact
addresses. It's command-line PHP, and not the prettiest code in the
world. I haven't publicized the thing, but I'd consider passing it
along on request.
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Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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