RE: [registrars] OpenSource Whois Server Development Project

["Bhavin Turakhia" <bhavin.t@directi.com>]

hi tim,

i will have my tech team put up the code and a document on it. Each
registrar who is intersted can create the properties files for their own
whois - which define the regular expressions for their whois parsing

will let the list know about the place to download the library midweek

bhavin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Tim Ruiz
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 6:50 PM
> To: Bhavin Turakhia; Rick H Wesson; Registrars List
> Cc: halloran@icann.org
> Subject: RE: [registrars] OpenSource Whois Server Development Project
>
>
> Bhavin,
>
> Sounds great. How could we obtain a copy? Right now we are using Gandi and
> keeping it up-to-date ourselves. The whole Whois thing does point out one
> big plus for thick registries, a standardized whois format, at least per
> registry. It amazes me that there hasn't been one yet adopted for CNO, or
> that ICANN hasn't incorporated one into their agreements with
> registrars for
> it.
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> Behalf Of Bhavin Turakhia
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 10:45 PM
> To: Rick H Wesson; Registrars List
> Cc: halloran@icann.org
> Subject: RE: [registrars] OpenSource Whois Server Development Project
>
>
> if we are going to get some action here i would like to contribute a
> different project. a opensource whois parser. as it stands today majority
> registrars have their own whois formats.
>
> we have currently written a java livbrary which parses whois output of
> various registrars and extracts from it the admin email address,
> tech email
> address, or registrant name etc etc using regex rules that are separately
> put down for each registrar.
>
> currently offcourse we have made the rules ourselves. the idea would be to
> allow each registrar to update their rules themselves. however most
> registrars may not have the incentive to do so.
>
> but it is still a higher chance for them to do it if it is opensourced.
>
> Best Regards
> Bhavin Turakhia
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
> > Behalf Of Rick H Wesson
> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 9:58 AM
> > To: Registrars List
> > Cc: rick@ar.com; halloran@icann.org
> > Subject: [registrars] OpenSource Whois Server Development Project
> >
> >
> >
> > Registrars:
> >
> > I've started a SourceForge project for a open source whois server. the
> > project homepage is at http://whoisd.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > I'm looking for interested folks that would like to help out with the
> > project. The server is written in C++ and uses the ACE Networking
> > Toolkit[1] and has an embedded c++ OORDBMS called Gigabase[2]
> >
> > I consider the software Alpha and would not encourage anyone to run the
> > software in a production environment.
> >
> > Over the course of the next week I'll have all the files for a basic
> > server that fulfills minimum ICANN Requirements for Domain
> Registrars put
> > into CVS and create a distribution.
> >
> > I welcome any input developers may have in regards to the server, and
> > don't expect anything fancy I through the server together in a
> weekend as
> > an experiment and thought it would make a good baseline for
> something for
> > us to experiment with.
> >
> > Some current whoisd server features include:
> >
> >    o Provides basic Domain query support
> >    o Apache style logging
> >    o Multi-Threaded Design - using thread pools
> >    o Updateable in near Real-Time
> >    o Database Update APIs in Java and Perl5
> >    o online backup capabilities
> >
> > Planned Improvements:
> >    o Static and Dynamic IP Black Lists to prevent data mining
> >    o Request Throttling
> >    o XML output
> >    o extended query language
> >    o ICANN Formatted Data Escrow Dump
> >
> > -rick
> >
> > References
> >
> >   [1] ACE - The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment
> >       http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
> >
> >   [2] Gigabase - Object-Relational Database Management System
> >       http://www.ispras.ru/~knizhnik/gigabase.html
> >
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