Hi Zeljko, Thanks for your reply that is very useful information. We would, of course, not want to do anything to put undue pressure on the system. I can also see that this market is quite competitive and really this is just a speculative project to see if we can make a useful add-on for OpenSRS users which could hopefully be improved on in time by the community.
It seems from the other replies, (Dave and Michael), that others may be interested in a system of this type. We are very much in support of Open Source software here and would like to release anything created on a GPL licence. We use programmers who are more than happy to release their work in this way but do require some payment for their work. If anyone here would like to combine efforts/donations to help get this project up and running then please contact me off list. Best regards, Nick Managing Director e3internet http://www.e3internet.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zeljko Dimic Sent: 03 June 2004 23:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Snapback Hi Nick, if you're interested to go after expired domains, I'd like to give you few pointers: - generic whois is not reliable indicator if domain is available or not, as it's not real-time - there is a very competitive industry built around 'speculative' names, and it's not easy to crack into it - and most importantly, any sort of high-volume, repetitive activity should not be executed against our regular production environment. Both Tucows and registry may construe it as abuse, and we may temporarily limit your access to our system. Rather, you should connect to batch.opensrs.net - all the ports and functionality are equivalent to regular prod. environment. However, batch environment uses special pool of connections to the registry, that is more appropriate for this type of activities. Regards, ------------------------------------ Zeljko Dimic Technical Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucows Inc. 96 Mowat Avenue Toronto, ON, M6K 3M1 Canada tel: 416.535.0123 x 1256 fax: 416.531.5584 ------------------------------------ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.690 / Virus Database: 451 - Release Date: 22/05/2004
