whois search

[doctor2001]

Hi -

I am adding a whois search to my website with the following code:

Dim tcpc As New TCPClient
tcpc.Connect("whois.networksolutions.com", 43)
Dim strDomain As [String] = txtDomain.Text + ControlChars.Cr + ControlChars.Lf
Dim arrDomain As [Byte]() = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strDomain.ToCharArray())
Dim s As Stream = tcpc.GetStream()
s.Write(arrDomain, 0, strDomain.Length)
Dim sr As New StreamReader(tcpc.GetStream(), Encoding.ASCII)
While -1 <> sr.Peek()
txtResults.Text = CType(sr.ReadToEnd, String)

End While
tcpc.Close()

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This works fine...but all i really want to do is return a value (true or false) to see if the domain is avalible to register or not. I really don't need the owner, address, etc.

Does anyone know how this can be accomplished?

Thanks -John

 

[ca8msm]

Can't you just return a value of True if the owner is populated?


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[doctor2001]

Not sure I follow ...

 

[ca8msm]

What I meant, was that you are currently returning all of the user's information if the domain exists (if understand you correctly). Therefore, if you check if there is some text associated with the owner, then you could return True (or False depending on how you look at it!).


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