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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.

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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.

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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.

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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..

HmGNjEi.png

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.

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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.

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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.

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