At 10/26/04 12:00 AM, Nick Wilsdon wrote: >I'm working on some scripts which automatically query the WHOIS for all >the domains we offer as part of a shopping cart - usual stuff really. > >I noticed that the .tv registry has a limitation of 20 queries, how does >one go about having this functionality on your website without exceeding >the quotas set by the .tv or other registries. Do they or anyone else >offer a subscription or paid service to access this information?
I don't know the answer to that question, but you can avoid this if you do a DNS lookup to see if nameservers for the zone exist in the appropriate TLD registry, instead of a WHOIS lookup. It's free, much faster, and doesn't suffer from this problem. It's fairly accurate (a little less accurate than WHOIS because it finds expired-but-not-yet-deleted domains as available, but WHOIS can be wrong, too. In any case, I assume you're telling people something like "these related domains might be available, click here to check..."). -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/ "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." -- Darwin
