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[RESOLVED] CIRA and unavailable whois


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There seems to be a bug in the .ca patch. when going through the cart on the front side, all .ca domains come up as 'unavailable'.

 

When doing a Who is on the admin side, all domains come back as already registered. But the who is information below show that the domain is 'available'.

 

It appears that the includes/whoisservers.php may need to be updated from line 87 - 99

 

reading |AVAIL to |available

 

Can an anyone confirm this fix/bug?

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I'm getting the same thing. All .CA domains are saying they are ''already taken'', even though the WHOIS check shows ''available''. For example, checking abcd1234.ca says:

 

"Sorry! abcd1234.ca is already taken!"

 

and when I click on the WHOIS link, and the WHOIS window opens, it says:

 

 

WHOIS Results for abcd1234.ca

 

Domain name: abcd1234.ca

Domain status: available

 

% WHOIS look-up made at 2010-10-13 16:59:10 (GMT)

%

% Use of CIRA's WHOIS service is governed by the Terms of Use in its Legal

% Notice, available at http://www.cira.ca/legal-notice/?lang=en'>http://www.cira.ca/legal-notice/?lang=en

%

% © 2010 Canadian Internet Registration Authority, (http://www.cira.ca/)

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Hmmm... I tried putting in "Domain status: available" as the result, but that doesn't work.

 

Is it possible to do a NOT, as in 'NOT Creation' or 'NOT Expiry' or 'NOT Registrar'?

 

 

WHOIS Results for ibm.ca

 

Domain name: ibm.ca

Domain status: registered

Creation date: 2000/09/29

Expiry date: 2011/05/22

 

Registrar:

Name: Arvic Search Services Inc.

Number: 95

 

Registrant:

Name: IBM Canada

 

Administrative contact:

Name: Nicholas Trio

Postal address: IBM

New Orchard Road East

Armonk, NY 10504 United States

Phone: +1 914-945-1850

Fax:

Email: nrt@watson.ibm.com

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Try updating includes/whoisservers.php as follows:

 

FIND:

.ca|whois.cira.ca|AVAIL

 

REPLACE WITH:

.ca|whois.cira.ca|available

One of my replies didn't seem to post.

 

When I change that to 'available' then everything comes back as available. I would guess because the word available is in every response:

 

% Use of CIRA's WHOIS service is governed by the Terms of Use in its Legal

% Notice, available at http://www.cira.ca/legal-notice/?lang=en

 

When I try to make it something like 'status: available' that isn't found. I dont think it's the colon, since there are other response codes in the whoiservers.php file that contain colons, but hard to say...

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Well this wasn't something CIRA announced was changing but looks like the whois output has changed slightly. Thanks CIRA! :)

 

The reason "status: available" isn't working for you is that they have a lot of spaces in there that you just aren't seeing thru a browser so it actually has to be "status: available". Therefore give the following line a try in includes/whoisservers.php for it:

 

.ca|whois.cira.ca|Domain status:         available

 

Matt

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Well this wasn't something CIRA announced was changing but looks like the whois output has changed slightly. Great! :)

 

The reason "status: available" isn't working for you is that they have a lot of spaces in there that you just aren't seeing thru a browser so it actually has to be "status: available". Therefore give the following line a try in includes/whoisservers.php for it:

 

.ca|whois.cira.ca|Domain status:         available

 

Matt

Hi. Yes, with 9 space characters, it's resolved. Thank you. :)
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