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Is it possible to keep track of whois requests of a domain?

I'm interested in a domain, and want to buy it cheap. Is it possible that I worsen my position in the discussion in the deal if I check it regularly with whois requests ? Is it possible to show how many times somebody checked a domain whois records…
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How to install PHPWhoIs

I am trying to install this plugin but haven't found any docs on how to do so. The project is here: http://www.phpwhois.org/ So far I've figured out I should do tar -zxvf /plugins/phpwhois-4.2.2.tar.gz This unpacked the files to phpwhois-4.2.2…
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What happens when multiple DNS servers fail?

I'm designing a business continuity plan. The company's website uses two internally-hosted servers at two different datacenters to provide name resolution. I've been asked to add a third WHOIS record hosted at UltraDNS or DynDNS, for "DR…
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Fetch zone file for a domain name

I'm trying to move 2 web-servers (with German and Russian domain names) from one hoster to another one (where I can create/maintain own DNS zones). Before changing anything, I'd like to fetch and save the current zone file (sp?) for future…
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DNS delegation without changing WHOIS

I am hosting several domains on my own nameservers. Some I'd like to use with a third party webhosting provider that asked me to move the domain over to them as they don't support external nameservers. Is it strictly necessary to update the WHOIS…
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Are there any other tools like whois which can be used to obtain domain certificates using command line?

I needed to collect certain information from domain certificate, i was looking into "whois" but it gives a "TLD has no whois server" in certain cases. Also does the information provided in the certificate differ for different domains? And is there a…
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Good place to check your domain name information and have it orginized

I have a lot of domain names at different registrars. I often work with these domains and change the information on them such as nameservers and contact details. Often times I need to check what the details on the domain names are and I use…
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Can I Update NetCraft DNS info?

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://elementsystems.net It has the wrong "Organisation", "Nameserver Organisation" and "Reverse DNS" My domain information is private and from what I can see, everything on my server is setup correctly.…
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How do I do a nxdomain check?

my friend says this, but it doesn't work as it says "dig command not found" dig ns
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What are my responsibilities as a domain holder?

I have a handful of com, net and uk domains, all registered with the correct postal, email and telephone contacts. I'm not using any whois-privacy services, except with some of my UK domains where the whois database offers a simple opt-out. So apart…
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nslookup finds server name from ip, but whois claims the name has expired?

I noticed I was getting udp traffic on random ports from an unknown ip address that was definitely not on my domain today. When I looked up the ip using nslookup, it returned a name. But when I did a whois on both name whois complained that the…
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What is best practice for reporting vulnerability scans?

While reading our logs I came across several requests that seems to be scanning for vulnerabilities on our web app. 2021-09-25T17:32:44.164858+00:00 app[web.1]: 54.39.216.121 - - [25/Sep/2021:17:32:44 +0000] "GET…
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How do I identify registerable/registered domains (ones with whois) and domains without whois (subdomains)

I have an issue. I am trying to check if a given string is a valid "registered" or "registerable" domainname. Ideally I want to see if the given string can have a valid "registrar" or not. I am already checking the string format using regex and…
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Two way handshake for WHOIS protocol? RFC 3912

From RFC 3912: 3. Protocol Example If one places a request of the WHOIS server located at whois.nic.mil for information about "Smith", the packets on the wire will look like: client server at whois.nic.mil open TCP …
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How can I use nginx as a whois server with PHP-FPM?

How can I use nginx as a whois server with PHP-FPM? I am unable to find any way to do this. And editing the source would take a long time. Because, the source is built for HTTP purpose mainly, and reverse proxying. So what I want is: User's…
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