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bawdy · 11-09-2002, 02:10 AM

hey anyone know a services that i can submit a list of domains to so i check to see if any are available?

better yet anyone know how i query the database via php.... are there any services that will export a search results as xml?

answers to either question will be greatly appreciated

Apollo · 11-09-2002, 04:23 AM

You can do whois queries yourself.

It's been a long time but I think if you send a telnet connection to a whois server (port 43 me thinks) then send it the base domain name it'll return a response. Regardless of the port it would be similar to connecting to an apache server through fsockopen on PHP to get the HTTP headers of a page.

Check on sourceforge...I'm 99% positive there's been a PHP based whois solution built there...if not, I know perl has one on CPAN...that is of course unless you feel like doing the work yourself =)

bawdy · 11-09-2002, 06:03 AM

cool thanks man

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11-09-2002, 04:23 AM	#2
Apollo Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 433	You can do whois queries yourself. It's been a long time but I think if you send a telnet connection to a whois server (port 43 me thinks) then send it the base domain name it'll return a response. Regardless of the port it would be similar to connecting to an apache server through fsockopen on PHP to get the HTTP headers of a page. Check on sourceforge...I'm 99% positive there's been a PHP based whois solution built there...if not, I know perl has one on CPAN...that is of course unless you feel like doing the work yourself =) __________________ ----------- Free automated way to rotate sponsor gallery thumbnails on your sites TgpWizards - Free TGP Gallery submission system

11-09-2002, 06:03 AM	#3
bawdy Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,424	cool thanks man