ah, i thought you meant for checking domain availability on demand. is it
necessary to check for expired sites? i had the impression from a previous
thread that NSI doesn't release those except under a nuclear threat...
seriously, this could be done with a shell script without too much
trouble. run once a day as a cron job, shortly after the
NSI database is updated (5:30am EST?), grep the results and have it page
you when one is released?
robm
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Newfield-Net-Host.com wrote:
>
> Both of these are fine, I could log in to net/sol or any one of the
> authorized ICANN sites for the same thing. :~)
>
> I was wondering if there's an automated process that will run, say,
> every day at a preset time, and then notify me if a domain has
> returned to the pool? Otherwise, it's necessary to manually check
> for availability daily to catch the domain(s) that has(ve)n't been
> renewed, when net/sol finally gets around to releasing.
>
> What do the rest of you guys do, when you have an eye on
> a domain that appears abandoned? Manually check them? Daily?
>
> Thanks,
> tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
>
> > We have customised some existing script ideas and come up with
> > http://www.virtualflirt.co.uk/whois/
> > which looks at all main systems & TLD's
> > some don't appear to work like .cn (china) & .tv
> > but it does work if you put ca (to look up a .ca) in the "other" box
> >
> > trying to drive traffic to our http://www.virtualflirt.co.uk game
> > rather than encourage public whois look ups
> >
> > but it could also be used to send a data string to the next page for
> clients
> > to register a domain if it appears available
> >
> > N.B. we do NOT keep any data on any of the domain names that are looked up
> > using this script
> > just in case your worried about us running a .php script / database
> >
> > regards
> >
> > martyn
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >
> > >
> > > On my site I use a PHP script that calls fwhois and feeds the results
> back
> > > to the user.
> > >
> > > <shameless plug>
> > > You can check it out at http://www.2guyshosting.com/lookup.php and see
> if
> > > you like it.
> > > </shameless plug>
> > >
> > > If you like it, I'd be happy to share the source with you or the
> > > list. However, keep a couple of things in mind -- one, fwhois is a
> > > Unix/Linux command; this won't work without changes on an IIS server.
> Two,
> > > this kind of an input (essentially being the argument to a console
> > > command) can be pretty insecure. I've been relatively careful with it,
> but
> > > your mileage may vary.
> > >
> > > Rob Martin
> > >
> > > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Newfield-Net-Host.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a way to automatically check for the availability of a
> > > > domain name? A script or something, maybe even an
> > > > email notification?
> > > > tom
> > > >
> > > >
>
>
>
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