On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 14:09, Matthew Trent wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2004 01:49 pm, Kristopher Austin wrote:
> > To answer your question, this information is contained in a whois
> > lookup.
>
> I believe that's against the rules and would probably get you blocked after X
> number of queries in X time period...
It's also hideously inefficient.
It'd be far better to hook into the registrar system (they *have* to
exchange "I've sold domain name X" info in real time...) and whenever a
new domain is added, insert a new Domain_name,30_day_Expiry entry into a
database.
Then daily|hourly you'd build a zone file from the unexpired domain
names.
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