While you're at it I also recommend checking the registry whois to see if
Tucows is still the registrar. I currently have 21 domain names in my RWI
list that have been moved to other registrars.
I am using a modified version of Tom's script (thank you) to dump a list of
domain names to run against whois.crsnic.net to check the current registrar.
I am manually setting those which have been transferred away to not receive
renewal notices. So far there aren't enough to warrant "automation" of that
part.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tom Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 2:05 PM
Subject: RE: How to retrive a list of all our customers domains
> Tom,
>
> > did you guys break the sslbot again? (doesn't look like it. :) I had to
>
> Nope, it still works, however OpenSRS is having some problems with the RWI
> timing out lately (probably because of all the people running sslbot!). I
> have it set to automatically run every night and the connection times out
> more than it is successful.
>
> By the way, if anyone is interested, I can look into posting my hack of
> sslbot which writes the retrieved data to a mysql table.
>
> > write another one for a different supplier and came up with a much more
> > robust page parsing algorithm... :-) [split out the tables, then split
out
> > the rows... then parse the rows] Almost looking forward to rewriting
that
> > sslbot script :-)
>
> and the ETA for this is what, yesterday? ;)
>
> > Considering that forcing clients to write robot scripts to pound your
> > servers into the dirt is a just generally a bad idea, and a simple text
> > output screen to dump everything would be _trivial_ to write... you guys
> > don't make this easy... (I know we've discussed this before, and I don't
> > hold you responsible Chuck.... :)
>
> Exactly. As I mentioned above, I wonder if this is part of the cause for
> the slowdown seen in the RWI. After all it shouldn't be that slow at 5am
> EST when I run my script.
>
> > That said, I have no real desire to grab all the customer fields, and I
> > would probably do that via a whois lookup instead anyway... much easier
to
> > parse text output than HTML, and it should be faster than using an SSL
> > connection.
>
> This is what I would suggest as well. Just get the list of active domains
> and then use WHOIS to get the current contact information.
>
> -Bill
>
