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Originally Posted by u-Bob
protected whois info still shows nameservers, reg date, exp date,....
Personally I've been using something similar for years that does daily whois lookups, updates all info and notifies me if something changes (in case a domain is hijacked or some registrars privacy service suddenly stops working), does ns lookups and checks if my sites are up....
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Does your script also query the registry whois too? And compares the two ensuring, in particular, that the registrants and expiration dates match. If not, that's something you should add.
Mismatches between registry and registrar whois is an uncommon problem, but occurs often enough that it, nevertheless, should be monitored.
Even big name registrars have problems with mismatches, in particular Moniker and eNom.
eNom is a special case - mismatch problems there often involve "thick" registry TLDs, in particular, .org, .info, .biz, and .us ... the issue can crop up after doing a "push" within eNom to a new registrant - eNom updates their local whois, but often not the registry whois...
So even TLDs of "thick" registries can have mismatches, because some registrars maintain their own whois for those TLDs too despite it not technically being necessary.
Ron