nop has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi -- I can get whois info for Yahoo here

http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=yahoo.com&SearchType=do,

but Net::ParseWhois can't find it: 
use Net::ParseWhois;
use Data::Dumper;
my $w = Net::ParseWhois::Domain->new('yahoo.com');
die unless $w;
die unless $w->ok;
print "Domain: ", $w->domain, "\n";    
print "Name: ", $w->name, "\n";    
print "Tag: ", $w->tag, "\n";    
print "Address:\n", map { "    $_\n"     } $w->address;
print "Country: ", $w->country, "\n";

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Which on my machine generates 
Domain: n/a
Name: n/a
Tag: n/a
Address:
    n/a
Country: n/a

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What's going on here? Is there a way to point the module at a more comprehensive whois server? Thanks

sigma

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Re: NetParseWhois
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Apr 08, 2003 at 19:40 UTC
    nop,
    Just from peaking in the source code: 
    sub TLDs {
        {
        COM => 'whois.nsiregistry.com', 
        NET => 'whois.nsiregistry.com', 
        ORG => 'whois.nsiregistry.com'
        }
}

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    You could try changing one of these. There is another possibility. According to the docs on CPAN, there is only a finite list of registrars that are supported. Depending on which registrar is returning the value, it may just not know how to parse it.

    Cheers - L~R

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