Quoting Anthony ([email protected]):

> Australian domain whois also doesn't show expiry info.

Quite.

This astonishing-to-me-in-2007 fact is highlighted prominently in my
referenced _Linux Gazette_ article.  The domain I tested, as revealed in
the article, was, in fact, luv.asn.au.  (That revelation means that all
three implementations of the checking script are useless for .au
domains, sadly.  Fortunately, even for hosts in Oz, .au is not the only
possible TLD.  For hosts where that DNS constraint applies, true, other
solutions would be required.)

> Unfortunately you can't poll whois for a .au domain more than 20 times a
> day from the same IP.

FWIW, Ben Okopnik's (and, IIRC, Jesse Monroy's) Perl code includes
rate-limiting code for some _other_ TLDs that are punitive of frequent
queries, albeit not quite that punitive. 


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