Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Allow optional = character in domain syntax #65

Open
wants to merge 1 commit into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from

Conversation

meyagen
Copy link

@meyagen meyagen commented Oct 11, 2016

(Sorry, accidentally deleted the branch for the previous PR again.)

WHOIS allows lookups in the form of =domain to single out domains registered with different registrars (e.g. gmail.com) and return its full lookup info.

Otherwise, simply looking up with domain (without the =) for certain domains will yield a notice from WHOIS to specify the search. For example, in looking up gmail.com, we get the following response:

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:https://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

GMAIL.COM.BR
GMAIL.COM.DEADKNIFERECORDS.COM
GMAIL.COM.MY
GMAIL.COM.TEJAARH.COM
GMAIL.COM

To single out one record, look it up with "xxx", where xxx is one of the
records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with "=xxx" to receive a full display for each record.

...

Specifying with = yields the info we need:

string(3620) "Domain Name: gmail.com
Registry Domain ID: 4667231_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com
...

@meyagen meyagen force-pushed the fix-regex branch 2 times, most recently from 955e03d to c852e71 Compare October 12, 2016 00:23
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

None yet

1 participant