[Resolved] PHP Whois

monaco said:

What I'd like to know is how you get around the issue of some registrar's not listing complete info in their whois registries and forcing you to use a web interface with a captcha to get the information.

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Have you got an example of such a domain that requires this?

champ_rock said:

ya it is denying my requests.

this is happening after i check about 10-12 domains

if anyone finds a solution to this then it would be great

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The only possible solutions are as follows:-

1) Find out how many queries you can make in x amount of time and use sleep or usleep to ensure you do not do too many queries.
2) Use more than 1 whois server to find the results.
3) Use a bank of proxies that will help.

The best solution is a combination of options 1 and 2. Option 3 should be avoided as it could end up you being permanently banned from using the whois server in question.

Thanks for this tool!
Can anybody just tell how to get the available or not status? I mean if the domain is available show XXXX and if not show "YYYY"

Thanks!

peter@flexiwebhost said:

The only possible solutions are as follows:-

1) Find out how many queries you can make in x amount of time and use sleep or usleep to ensure you do not do too many queries.
2) Use more than 1 whois server to find the results.
3) Use a bank of proxies that will help.

The best solution is a combination of options 1 and 2. Option 3 should be avoided as it could end up you being permanently banned from using the whois server in question.

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1. i do not think there is any time limit. i have tried sleep(5) and sometimes it gives me an error with that also. sometimes it runs fine even without any sleep

2. different whois servers is definately a help. i will rotate between those three servers that u mentioned

3. proxies: i think that requires
a. more advanced coding which i am not familiar with
b. good proxies are hard to find therefore the script will hardly function when any proxy goes down

are you running that on your local server ? or on real hosting ?

Maybe if its on real hosting (exp. GoDaddy) there are more
whois lookups from other machines / ppls trying to register domains etc.

it is on a shared hosting. the servers are at "LayeredTech"

i think that might be the case. i will try to switch my hosting for this purpose. may be it will work then