weppos / whois

Migrated from http://code.simonecarletti.com/issues/321

Right now the library supports available and registered statuses.
However, a domain can be reserved but not registered.

Consider to support the following statuses:

• available - domain not registered and available for registration
• registered - domain registered/reserved and not available for registration
• registered - domain registered and not available for registration
• reserved - domain not registered but reserved and not available for registration

Migrated from http://code.simonecarletti.com/issues/430

Some domain names applies some specific rules to domain names.
It means, the domain can be formally valid but effectively not compliant to authority requirements.

u34jedzcq.uk

Error for "u34jedzcq.uk".

This domain cannot be registered because it contravenes the Nominet UK
naming rules.  The reason is:
  the domain name contains too few parts.

WHOIS lookup made at 20:30:27 08-Jan-2010

It would be nice to be able to detect whether the domain is valid or not.

Migrated from http://code.simonecarletti.com/issues/343

The status property currently return mixed values. Some parsers return a string, others a symbol ad others an array.
Also, the value is not normalized and current implementation makes the property pointless.

>> Whois.query("google.it").status
=> :"grace-period" 

>> Whois.query("google.com").status
=> ["clientDeleteProhibited", "clientTransferProhibited", "clientUpdateProhibited", "serverDeleteProhibited", "serverTransferProhibited", "serverUpdateProhibited"]

>> Whois.query("google.de").status
=> "connect"

Doesn't answer within 60 seconds.

weppos:whois weppos$ ruby-whois google.bj
/Users/weppos/.rvm/ruby-1.8.7-p174/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:60:in `open': execution expired (Timeout::Error)
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/gems/whois-0.8.1/lib/whois/server/adapters/base.rb:83:in `ask_the_socket'
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/gems/whois-0.8.1/lib/whois/server/adapters/base.rb:77:in `query_the_socket'
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/gems/whois-0.8.1/lib/whois/server/adapters/standard.rb:34:in `request'
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/gems/whois-0.8.1/lib/whois/server/adapters/base.rb:52:in `query'
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/gems/whois-0.8.1/lib/whois/server/adapters/base.rb:66:in `with_buffer'
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/gems/whois-0.8.1/lib/whois/server/adapters/base.rb:51:in `query'
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/gems/whois-0.8.1/lib/whois/client.rb:72:in `query'
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/gems/whois-0.8.1/lib/whois/client.rb:70:in `query'
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/gems/whois-0.8.1/bin/ruby-whois:37
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/bin/ruby-whois:19:in `load'
    from /Users/weppos/.rvm/gems/ruby/1.8.7/bin/ruby-whois:19

Migrated from http://code.simonecarletti.com/issues/330

*********************************************************************
* Please note that the following result could be a subgroup of      *
* the data contained in the database.                               *
*                                                                   *
* Additional information can be visualized at:                      *
* http://www.nic.it/cgi-bin/Whois/whois.cgi                         *
*********************************************************************

Domain:             innovazionepa.it
Status:             ACTIVE
Created:            2006-07-14 00:00:00
Last Update:        2009-07-30 00:06:53
Expire Date:        2010-07-14

Registrant
  Name:             Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
  Organization:     Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
  ContactID:        PRES2-ITNIC
  Address:          P.zza Colonna, 370
                    Roma
                    00187
                    RM
                    IT
  Created:          2007-03-01 10:26:04
  Last Update:      2008-01-21 11:10:53

Admin Contact
  Name:             Salvatore Tucci
  ContactID:        ST1136-ITNIC
  Address:          Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
                    P.zza Colonna, 370
                    Roma
                    00187
                    RM
                    IT
  Created:          2005-09-29 00:00:00
  Last Update:      2008-01-21 11:10:53

Technical Contacts
  Name:             Francesco Proietti
  ContactID:        FP43-ITNIC
  Address:          Consorzio CASPUR
                    Via dei Tizii, 6b
                    Roma
                    00185
                    RM
                    IT
  Created:          2003-05-05 00:00:00
  Last Update:      2009-11-03 13:28:46

  Name:             Marco Lusini
  ContactID:        ML3648-ITNIC
  Address:          Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
                    Via della Mercede, 96
                    Roma
                    00187
                    RM
                    IT
  Created:          2005-02-18 00:00:00
  Last Update:      2007-03-01 07:37:08

  Name:             Sergio Patrucco
  ContactID:        SP5403-ITNIC
  Address:          Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
                    Via della Mercede, 96
                    Roma
                    00187
                    RM
                    IT
  Created:          2005-04-28 00:00:00
  Last Update:      2007-03-01 07:37:08

  Name:             Ezio gandini
  ContactID:        EG4997-ITNIC
  Address:          Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
                    Via della Mercede, 96
                    Roma
                    00187
                    RM
                    IT
  Created:          2007-03-28 14:59:18
  Last Update:      2008-01-21 12:09:27

Registrar
  Organization:     Caspur
  Name:             INROMA-MNT

Nameservers
  ns.palazzochigi.it
  ns2.palazzochigi.it
  decsrv.caspur.it

Migrated from http://code.simonecarletti.com/issues/279

ARIN returns only a stripped version of the whois entry if no additional parameter (+) is given.

Modified search_whois:

/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/whois-0.4.2/lib/whois.rb

def search_whois
s = TCPsocket.open(@server.server, 43)
if @server.class.name.eql?("Whois::Server::Arin")
s.write("+#{self.ip.to_s}\n")
else
s.write("#{self.ip.to_s}\n")
end
ret = ''
while s.gets do ret += $_ end
s.close
@all = ret
end

Internally WHOIS should always prefer UTF-8 encoding regardless server encoding.

Memoize properties in order to increase subsequent access.

$ whois -h whois.internic.net help

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
<WHOIS help>
Select a sub-topic for help; '?' (with no RETURN) for a list of options;
RETURN key to return to WHOIS.


<OVERVIEW>
WHOIS is used to look up records in the registry database.  Whois can provide
information about domains, nameservers, and registrars.

...

Posted on behalf of Stan Wiechers.
http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-whois/browse_thread/thread/de2df45efda4ee78?hl=en_US

We have had trouble getting results for certain Korean and Japanese
addresses. Take the addresses below as example, when I run a query on
it a get a lot of garbled characters.

Korea: 222.96.17.158
Japan: 218.43.43.43

What can I do to get readable whois answer for those address types?
They work perfectly fine with my OS X whois command line tool.

I tested Whois 1.0.12 on Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1, but I could not get it to parse the results returned for common IP Addresses such as for www.example.com (192.0.32.10).

require 'whois'

w = Whois::Client.new
answer = w.query('192.0.32.10')
# => "\nOrgName:    ICANN \nOrgID:      ICANN\nAddress:    4676 Admiralty Way\nAddress:    Suite 330\nCity:       Marina del Rey\nStateProv:  CA\nPostalCode: 90292\nCountry:    US\n\nNetRange:   192.0.32.0 - 192.0.47.255 \nCIDR:       192.0.32.0/20 \nOriginAS:   AS26711\nNetName:    ICANN-MDR\nNetHandle:  NET-192-0-32-0-1\nParent:     NET-192-0-0-0-0\nNetType:    Direct Assignment\nNameServer: A.IANA-SERVERS.NET\nNameServer: B.IANA-SERVERS.ORG\nNameServer: C.IANA-SERVERS.NET\nNameServer: D.IANA-SERVERS.NET\nNameServer: NS.ICANN.ORG\nComment:    \nRegDate:    2009-06-29\nUpdated:    2010-02-09\n\nOrgTechHandle: JAB349-ARIN\nOrgTechName:   Abley, Joe \nOrgTechPhone:  +1-310-578-8673\nOrgTechEmail:  joe.abley@icann.org\n\nOrgTechHandle: MAK93-ARIN\nOrgTechName:   AKCIN, Mehmet \nOrgTechPhone:  +1-310-823-9358\nOrgTechEmail:  mehmet@icann.org\n\nOrgTechHandle: DCL131-ARIN\nOrgTechName:   Closson, David \nOrgTechPhone:  +1-310-578-8670\nOrgTechEmail:  david.closson@icann.org\n\nOrgTechHandle: DSO63-ARIN\nOrgTechName:   Soltero, David \nOrgTechPhone:  +1-310-301-3890\nOrgTechEmail:  david.soltero@icann.org\n\n# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2010-04-27 20:00\n# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.\n#\n# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use\n# available at https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html\n" 
answer.properties
# => {:status=>nil, :referral_url=>nil, :admin=>nil, :domain=>nil, :created_on=>nil, :technical=>nil, :updated_on=>nil, :nameservers=>nil, :disclaimer=>nil, :expires_on=>nil, :domain_id=>nil, :registrar=>nil, :referral_whois=>nil, :registrant=>nil, :registered?=>nil, :available?=>nil}

The error message trying to parse the following response for denic.de Whois

RuntimeError: Unexpected token: % Error: 55000000002 Connection refused; access control limit reached.

Response

% Error: 55000000002 Connection refused; access control limit reached.

An interface to this functionality would be nice

$ whois 77.67.19.144 | grep netname
netname: AKAMAI-TINET
$ whois 85.25.0.24 | grep netname
netname: INTERGENIA-1

https://www.centralnic.com/names/domains/whois

CentralNic operates a standard whois server that you can use to check the details of any domain name registered with us. You can use any standard whois client (including the UNIX terminal client) to query our whois server at whois.centralnic.com.

Create a page in the "manual":http://www.ruby-whois.org/manual/ to document how to use the library to query IDN TLDs.

See also "this comment":http://www.simonecarletti.com/blog/2010/06/public-suffix-list-library-for-ruby/#comment-11952 about the Public Suffix Service project.

Some registries imposes a N-days quarantine status to protect registrants from invalid cancellations.

Quarantine is a system under which, for forty days, a cancelled .nl domain name is not available for re-registration by anyone except the original registrant. This is the period recommended by RIPE as sufficient to ensure that the domain is no longer listed anywhere in the DNS network. The purpose of quarantine is to protect registrants against disproportionate consequences in the event of mistaken cancellation. Quarantine is a sort of after-care, which is of benefit mainly to the registrant, but also to the registrar. https://www.sidn.nl/en/faq/nl-domain-names/

The same applies for .EU domains.

A .eu domain name spends 40 days in quarantine once it has been deleted. This means that while the domain name is not available to the general public to register, it is also no longer in the possession of its former owner. The new “quarantined” status of the name is reflected in the WHOIS database and the date of its release is also published so that other parties having an interest in the name know when they can attempt to register it again. http://faq.domainmonster.com/domains/eu/quarantine/

More information:

• http://www.domainnews.com/en/sidn-introduces-quarantine-for-expiring-.nl-domains.html
• http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-whois/browse_thread/thread/e9e30acd6b71c998