Hi Nick, if you're interested to go after expired domains, I'd like to give you few pointers:
- generic whois is not reliable indicator if domain is available or not, as it's not real-time - there is a very competitive industry built around 'speculative' names, and it's not easy to crack into it - and most importantly, any sort of high-volume, repetitive activity should not be executed against our regular production environment. Both Tucows and registry may construe it as abuse, and we may temporarily limit your access to our system. Rather, you should connect to batch.opensrs.net - all the ports and functionality are equivalent to regular prod. environment. However, batch environment uses special pool of connections to the registry, that is more appropriate for this type of activities. Regards, ------------------------------------ Zeljko Dimic Technical Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucows Inc. 96 Mowat Avenue Toronto, ON, M6K 3M1 Canada tel: 416.535.0123 x 1256 fax: 416.531.5584 ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Wilsdon Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:40 AM To: 'Gordon Hudson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Snapback Hi Gordon, Yes, this is my exact concern about any system of this type, the load on the retry operation and how that would affect the OpenSRS system. It does not seem a difficult function to put in so I was wondering why the developers had not. However if the auto-retry mechanism could be triggered by a whois search, to start retrying when the domain was 'free' and to stop when it was again 'taken' (either by ourselves or someone else) then the time could be greatly controlled. I would like to investigate this further - can anyone else see any reasons for not doing so or know more about the load/limits of the connections? Also, if we developed a system of this kind would it be of interest to make it a GPL distribution to the community? Best, Nick Managing Director e3internet http://www.e3internet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Wilsdon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 8:33 AM Subject: RE: Snapback > Hi, > > >From examining this further - it really comes down to auto-retrying the > pending domain order doesn't it? We actually had this one domain in > question in the pending order queue but the domain was still technically > not available so the order had not gone through. I was sitting there > manually retrying the order as the time came near to the release but > someone with a system in place got it before me. > > So is there a way to enable the domain request to be reattempted > automatically when queued? I don't believe so but you could write a script that did it. However, I seem to remember people getting into trouble for doing this because it tied up too many connections to Verisign. That may have changed. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.690 / Virus Database: 451 - Release Date: 22/05/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.690 / Virus Database: 451 - Release Date: 22/05/2004
