Recently, btrott pointed me to Net::ParseWhois as a solution to a problem I was having. Using it, I found a bug (in the sense that Net::ParseWhois was supposed to be backwards compatible to Net::Whois and reported it to the author.

    perl -MNet::Whois -e "$w=new Net::Whois::Domain \"flyflyfly.com\";
+ print 1 unless($w->ok)"
    1

    perl -MNet::ParseWhois -e "$w=new Net::ParseWhois::Domain \"flyfly
+fly.com\"; print 1 unless($w->ok)"
    no registrar configured for referral whois.corenic.net
    Can't call method "ok" without a package or object reference at -e
+ line 1.
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The author replied to my e-mail with a fix and after another e-mail exchange, gave me permission to post the correspondence and a link to the new version of Net::ParseWhois, in case anyone has decided to use it.

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Hi Curtis,

Thanks for the feedback. You are actually the first person (out of maybe 40 who've downloaded the code) to send me email.

Attached you'll find the latest version of Net::ParseWhois. I fixed the bug you found and a few others. See the perldoc Net::ParseWhois page for details, but basically - it'll return an object now with ok properly set to true if a domain exists no matter what. If ParseWhois doesn't know about the registrar, it'll set unknown_register to true and raw_whois_data will have the raw data --

unless ($w->ok) {
    die "No match for $dom\n";
}

if ($w->unknown_registrar) {
    die "domain found, registrar unknown. raw data \follows\n" . $w->r
+aw_whois_text . "\n";
}
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I have a few more things I need to do before minting version 0.6, which'll be when I'll actually submit the module to CPAN.. drop me a note if you'd like to be kept abrest on the latest developments.

Thanks again for your feedback.

Abe

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The updated module may be found at http://honestabe.net/Net-ParseWhois-0.59.tar.gz

Abe further stated that he will be continuing work on this module and will be uploading it to CPAN.

Cheers,
Ovid

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