Comments on: Domain Expiration Check Shell Script

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:40:28 +0000

Hello, when i am use the code for a file then i get this message:

whois: biz\r.whois-servers.net: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

I am use a mac for this script, maybe you can help me :-)

Merry Christmas :-)

By: RoyWikan

RoyWikan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:48:46 +0000

As always you wrote a very good tutorial. Thanks for this great script, it makes my life lot easier! GBU Vivek!

By: Rik D

Rik D — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:48:05 +0000

Hello ZlayaZhaba,
you are correct there is no expiration date, the registration in the Netherland is normaly one year. That would be Record last updatedpdated + 1 Year = expiration date.
Can you help me ?
Rik

By: ZlayaZhaba

ZlayaZhaba — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:19:50 +0000

to: Rik D
I would like to check .NL domains ( Netherlands ) I tried to change Whois server into “whois.domain-registry.nl” but i get on every output “Unknown”…
Very funny zone!
As i see in answer of whois it has only two fields:
- Date registered:
- Record last updated:
And nothing like expiration date! Probably it must be calculated manually on base of last update?

By: Rik D

Rik D — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:23:16 +0000

Hello,
I would like to check .NL domains ( Netherlands ) I tried to change Whois server into “whois.domain-registry.nl” but i get on every output “Unknown”
Who can help me ?
Thanks in advance
Rik

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:55:10 +0000

Thanks for the heads up!

By: ZlayaZhaba

ZlayaZhaba — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:57:20 +0000

Nice modification of original script, man, thanks.
But looks like you forgot about variable MAIL ;)

By: Noah J.

Noah J. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:18:11 +0000

For some reason this script will only output “UNKNOWN” to all fields when using a large list/batch mode. It seems that any more than 5 domains in a list cause this (at least for me). Any thoughts as to why this might be?

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:47:09 +0000

You can use -s option to set another whois server
/script.name -d example.com -s whois.isp.com

By: cypher

cypher — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:27:02 +0000

never mind i glanced over it:

“whois.pir.org”
“whois.registry.in”
“whois.nic.uk”
“whois.neulevel.biz”
“whois.afilias.info”
“whois.jprs.jp”

By: cypher

cypher — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:22:00 +0000

Looks nice.

Do you have to modify what register the script checks?

I could not tell where the script is requesting the data from, can you please clarify?

Thanks,
Cypher

By: Exocet

Exocet — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:02:10 +0000

Just repeating GM’s question.. sending email but getting error msgs “/bin/sh: /home/xcyte/file.sh/domain-check-2: No such file or directory” even though I’ve followed the instructions exactly. Anyone more experienced that wants some cash to help me get this running email me at jgrimmond00@gmail.com.. thanks

By: Smish

Smish — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:59:45 +0000

Brilliant script, thanks.
Could anyone post their nagios version if they have it please. Many thanks!

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:16:24 +0000

Neil,

Okai, I’ve updated the script to support .uk 2nd level TLD. Try it out and let me know…

By: Neil McLeish

Neil McLeish — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:22:30 +0000

Hi again.
Next question. :-) I am trying to mod it to look up .uk domains.
The whois server is whois.nic.uk and the date is output as Renewal date: dd-Mmm-YYYY
Unfortunately I am not up to speed with awk and have probably made a couple of other errors too.
Are you able to assist please?

Many thanks in advance,

Neil.

By: Neil McLeish

Neil McLeish — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:02:59 +0000

Hi Vivek.
I just wanted to say thank you for providing this script.
It is an absolutely excellent time-saver for me and a great learning tool too!

All the best,

Neil.

By: GP

GP — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:11:09 +0000

Great script, but it sends no email? what i`m doing wrong?

By: Raju

Raju — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:57:43 +0000

Its an awesome tool. I just checked one domain. yet to check using file. but so far it impressed me.

thanks.

By: m2ke

m2ke — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:20:37 +0000

Very nice script. Is there already an extension to do “nameserver lookups”, means looking for each domain, what nameservers are registered? would be really nice since not all are so helpful and tell us that the domain is no longer on our nameserver…

By: Jonny

Jonny — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:05:30 +0000

Very nice script – please give me a link or email address to obtain the nagios version of it