On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Norman Rasmussen wrote: >> >> 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: > yea, in fact the www based service is for .co.za not for .za. AFAIK there is no whois server for .za :-( -- - Norman Rasmussen - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/
