Domain extensions added to whois file not working(dist whois json))

[kingsleymensah]

As always after updating whmcs i go to dist.whois.json file and add my CCTld there but after this upgrade it is not working anymore.

https://prnt.sc/qs1ewh here is a screenshot

[kingsleymensah]

8 hours ago, kingsleymensah said:

As always after updating whmcs i go to dist.whois.json file and add my CCTld there but after this upgrade it is not working anymore.

https://prnt.sc/qs1ewh here is a screenshot

Never mind guys, i got it . It seems the problem was from the registrar. i realized even their whois page was not resolving but after some hours now it started working.

[brian!]

Hi Kingsley,

9 hours ago, kingsleymensah said:

As always after updating whmcs i go to dist.whois.json file and add my CCTld there but after this upgrade it is not working anymore.

there's no need to do that - in fact, you should never edit the dist.whois.json as you can create a whois.json custom file in the same folder and the update won't touch that file.

you should just test those TLDs after an update to ensure that they still work... if they don't, then check to see if an updated entry has been added in the dist.whois.json file.

https://docs.whmcs.com/WHOIS_Servers

[kingsleymensah]

with the custom file do i name it "whois.json" or i can name is lets say "gh.whois.json".

Also do i have to duplicate the extensions of "dist.whois.json" to custom file or i just have to list in there the only custom extensions  i would like to add.

[brian!]

16 hours ago, kingsleymensah said:

with the custom file do i name it "whois.json" or i can name is lets say "gh.whois.json".

it has to be whois.json, otherwise WHMCS won't use it.

16 hours ago, kingsleymensah said:

Also do i have to duplicate the extensions of "dist.whois.json" to custom file or i just have to list in there the only custom extensions  i would like to add.

you only need to list any custom extensions in that file - so you're Ghanaian entry and any in the main dist.whois.json file that you later find are out of date.

[kingsleymensah]

10 minutes ago, brian! said:

it has to be whois.json, otherwise WHMCS won't use it.

you only need to list any custom extensions in that file - so you're Ghanaian entry and any in the main dist.whois.json file that you later find are out of date.

Got it! thanks man

[kingsleymensah]

29 minutes ago, kingsleymensah said:

Got it! thanks man

Immediately i did that, i started getting error 503 on all WHMSC pages. They work fine when i delete custom  whois.json file.

Any suggestions here?

[brian!]

1 hour ago, kingsleymensah said:

Any suggestions here?

i'd ideally like to have seen the whois,json file that you created, but using the following is working for me....

[
    {
        "extensions": ".gh,.com.gh,.org.gh,.edu.gh",
        "uri": "http://www.nic.gh/whois.php?domain=",
        "available": "No Object Found"
    }
]

possibly your port43 whois.nic,gh from your screenshot might work for you, but it didn't work for me - however, using the whois form on their website in WHMCS does seem to work.

[kingsleymensah]

 

 

 

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37 minutes ago, brian! said:

possibly your port43 whois.nic,gh from your screenshot might work for you, but it didn't work for me - however, using the whois form on their website in WHMCS does seem to work

I realized port43whois.nic.gh seems to somehow stopped working so i changed to their whois form just like you did and it works fine now.

Thanks a lot.

[Jacob Sevene]

Hello, 

I am Jacob

Trust you are all doing fine. 

May I please get help. I created a new whois.json inside the domais folder under resources with the following

[
    {
        "extensions": ".co.mz,.org.mz,.net.mz,.ac.mz",
        "uri": "https://whois.nic.mz/",
        "available": "No match"
    }
]

but when i go to my site the domains i want to add still say unavailable.

Please any suggestions

[brian!]

Hi Jacob,

22 hours ago, Jacob Sevene said:

Please any suggestions

the above website redirects to https://whois.nic.mz/whois.jsp - which now contains a captcha form... therefore, WHMCS will not be able to use it as a source for lookups (because it can't answer the captcha question).

the registry also doesn't seem to have a port 43 option (which would be WHMCS' preference to use) - so unless you can find another source for .mz whois lookups that WHMCS can use, you won't be able to provide your users with accurate .mz searches.