weelow Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 Hello lovely community, The .eg domain has no official whois server listed on IANA, only have the link below http://lookup.egregistry.eg I have seen WHMCS websites that successfully managed to find if domains are available or not using this link above. I have tried the following but it didnt work, this is the message i got in the activity log of WHMCS, "WHOIS Lookup Error for 'domainname.eg': error detail unknown" [ { "extensions": ".com.eg", "uri": "lookup.egregistry.eg__VIEWSTATE=%2FwEPDwUKMTE0MTE3MzM0OGRkOvqpjq8uHaI%2F1sHh3mEoMJgQ9oM%3D&__EVENTVALIDATION=%2FwEWEALg1bXrDALs0bLrBgL0iP0xAtqMgpwEAvO21IwPAvO2uMMIAtGqsNoDAuqP0u8CAtDiz5ADAt%2B80qQKAtqMgpwEAsHS%2B5sMAvO2uMMIAv3EhMcPAt%2B80qQKAoznisYGUgfWhvW7DUMATvni%2BM2aUDEy2QU%3D&TextBox1=domainname&DropDownlist1=.eg&Button1=Find", "available": "Not Avaialable" } ] Any help is greatly appreciated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian! Posted November 4, 2018 Share Posted November 4, 2018 16 hours ago, weelow said: I have seen WHMCS websites that successfully managed to find if domains are available or not using this link above. which ones ? 16 hours ago, weelow said: I have tried the following but it didn't work the site seems to be down currently, so there's no way to test whether this would work or not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weelow Posted November 4, 2018 Author Share Posted November 4, 2018 3 minutes ago, brian! said: which ones ? the site seems to be down currently, so there's no way to test whether this would work or not. An example of a WHMCS powered website that queries .com.eg domain https://clients.ne.com.eg/cart.php?a=add&domain=register An example of a website not powered by WHMCS that can query the .com.eg domain https://www.101domain.com/ Search for vodafone.com.eg it should be taken This is the .eg domain registry website http://www.egregistry.eg/ to look if a domain is available or not you have to visit this link http://lookup.egregistry.eg/ They may have some kind of Geo block on the website. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian! Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 On 04/11/2018 at 11:45, weelow said: An example of a WHMCS powered website that queries .com.eg domain https://clients.ne.com.eg/cart.php?a=add&domain=register they are using their own hosted PHP script to check for .eg domains - they are not directly accessing any .eg WHOIS server from WHMCS. ... and you can't use their PHP script in your WHMCS because it's IP-restricted to their server - I have already tried it locally! 🙂 your best bet might be to contact Network Egypt and ask if you can either buy the script, or get them to allow your server IP to use their script. On 04/11/2018 at 11:45, weelow said: An example of a website not powered by WHMCS that can query the .com.eg domain https://www.101domain.com/ Search for vodafone.com.eg it should be taken again, they may not be accessing the .eg whois server directly... if they sell .eg domains, they may have a custom API solution that they can use. On 04/11/2018 at 11:45, weelow said: This is the .eg domain registry website I can get to the registry site, but that link to the lookup page fails - it times out... i've tried using a couple of VPNs located around the world and I still can't get to it... nor does Google seemingly have a cached version of the page. the last entry in archive.org for this page is from 2016 and looks like this.. if the page still looks like that today, then WHMCS couldn't use it directly as it doesn't like TLDs being in dropdowns, it wants to pass the whole domain to the whois server.... so it would require a script to split the domain into SLD and TLD ('vodafone' & 'com.eg') and then pass them to the whois server page... that is possibly what Network Egypt's script does for them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weelow Posted November 10, 2018 Author Share Posted November 10, 2018 The registry lookup has country restriction, it only works from Egypt. That is the reason you couldn't access it. Thanks brain! , we ended up making our own whois script and we listed the script url in WHMCS whois so any lookups to that registry will be done through our script. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shahin Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 is it solved Pro? cause i have same problem and cant search .eg and .com.eg appreciate your feedback 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian! Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 On 20/06/2020 at 17:30, Shahin said: is it solved Pro? not unless you can find a whois server page or URL that WHMCS can use... or can write a script to parse it to use an existing whois option. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weelow Posted August 5, 2020 Author Share Posted August 5, 2020 Hello On 6/20/2020 at 6:30 PM, Shahin said: is it solved Pro? cause i have same problem and cant search .eg and .com.eg appreciate your feedback I got it working and I am going to start turning it into a module and share it in the market place for anyone interested. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shahin Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 13 minutes ago, weelow said: Hello I got it working and I am going to start turning it into a module and share it in the market place for anyone interested. Good news bro Iam first buyer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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