RE: [registrars] OpenSource Whois Server Development Project

["Tim Ruiz" <tim@godaddy.com>]

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
CEO
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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
>
>
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> Registrars:
>
> I've started a SourceForge project for a open source whois server. the
> project homepage is at http://whoisd.sourceforge.net/
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> 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
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>   [1] ACE - The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment
>       http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
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>   [2] Gigabase - Object-Relational Database Management System
>       http://www.ispras.ru/~knizhnik/gigabase.html
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