Norman Rasmussen wrote:
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
The bigger problem I've found is that many important TLDs don't
offer a native whois service, and that's also required by StartCom.
More here:
https://www.xmpp.net/news/2007/02/05/got-whois
Some (like the .za domain) offer a www based whois service that can
often be scraped for results. (In fact the .za one outputs so little
html that you can use it via curl easily - I have a patch for debian's
whois to do the direct http call, but it's never been accepted)
StartCom does not consider screen-scraped websites to be as reliable or trustworthy as native whois services, perhaps because it depends on having an official whois service that is registered with the IANA Root Zone Database:
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ /psa
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