Hi Brian, there is no way for Tucows to find authoritative expiration date of domain that is registered through another registrar. Registry does not supply this information, or any other for domains not in our portfolio.
It is possible to query other registrars' whois and collect information, but there are few problems with this approach. - whois run by other registrar in general is not always reliable and accessible to us - whois format may differs significantly (though usually this could be solved) - reported expiration date on some registrars' whois may not always be up to date. Sometimes it depends on the status of one's account with that particular registrar (unpaid invoice would hold back date etc...) Some registrars would use expiration date as in 'paid-until' date. For example, on a multiyear registration, such registrar would register domain for one year only, and renew it with registry annually while showing paid until date in the expiration field. This creates discrepancy btw. registrar and registry expiration dates, and if you transferred early, you may loose remainder of the years(registry date is authoritative), though you paid for it. So in general, we found this data unreliable enough... 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 ------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doctor PC - > Brian O'Donnell > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 6:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [domains-gen] expiry date of domain before transfer > > > Hello > > Does the API have a way to get the current expiry date of a domain before > we transfer (or attempt a transfer) to Tucows? > > This would eliminate our last bit of manual labour with regard to domain > transfers, and help us streamline our invoicing etc. > > If it doesn't exist, I'd like to add it to the wishlist. If it does, could > somebody point me to it? > > Thanks > > Brian O'Donnell > Doctor PC > www.doctorpc.ca > > _______________________________________________ > domains-gen mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen > _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
