[NOT A BUG] WHOIS Logic

[polyglot2]

Tested on versions 3.8.2 and 4.1.2

 

Currently entries in includes/whoisservers.php are like these:

 

.com|whois.crsnic.net|No match for

.org|whois.publicinterestregistry.net|NOT FOUND

.org.uk|whois.nic.uk|No match

.edu|whois.internic.net|No match for

.tourism.pl|whois.dns.pl|does not exists

...

 

which indicates that WHMCS only search for a negative indicator. But it does not look for a positive indicator. This means that if the response is an error page, or blank, or there is some other network error, etc, WHMCS can't tell the difference.

 

Maybe the entries can be made like:

 

.com|whois.crsnic.net|No match for|Already registered

.org|whois.publicinterestregistry.net|NOT FOUND|ALREADY REGISTERED

 

or whatever. And WHMCS should check both the existence of negative and positive (and reports error when there are both found, or there are none found).

 

Here at our servers, we experience network problem from time to time. When that happens, during the period WHMCS will report domain as not being available every time, even though it is. This disrupts the ordering process.

Edited November 26, 2009 by polyglot2

[Lawrence]

Tested on versions 3.8.2 and 4.1.2

 

Currently entries in includes/whoisservers.php are like these:

 

.com|whois.crsnic.net|No match for

.org|whois.publicinterestregistry.net|NOT FOUND

.org.uk|whois.nic.uk|No match

.edu|whois.internic.net|No match for

.tourism.pl|whois.dns.pl|does not exists

...

 

which indicates that WHMCS only search for a negative indicator. But it does not look for a positive indicator. This means that if the response is an error page, or blank, or there is some other network error, etc, WHMCS can't tell the difference.

 

Maybe the entries can be made like:

 

.com|whois.crsnic.net|No match for|Already registered

.org|whois.publicinterestregistry.net|NOT FOUND|ALREADY REGISTERED

 

or whatever. And WHMCS should check both the existence of negative and positive (and reports error when there are both found, or there are none found).

 

Here at our servers, we experience network problem from time to time. When that happens, during the period WHMCS will report domain as not being available every time, even though it is. This disrupts the ordering process.

 

I don't see how this would make any difference. If there is a network issue and the appropriate WHOIS server cannot be reached or has problems, you can't trust its response or assume the domain is available anyways (which is what your suggestion would do).

[polyglot2]

Well, WHMCS can display "Sorry, can't check domain availability right now, please [click here] if you want to check manually. Or try again later".

 

I think it's much better than just displaying "Domain already registered" (which is just a slightly less stupid assumption).