whois lookup limits - how to work around daily quota/query limits

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Hoff picture Hoff · May 27, 2010 · Viewed 16.9k times · Source

I'm building a website that allows users to check the availability of international domain names. My approach was to do a simple whois lookup on each request, but I'm now realizing that there are pretty harsh daily or hourly limits, e.g.

"Allowed average daily response limit is set to 100 regarding one IP address."

Is there a way to work around this issue? How do all these sites offer this kind of service, without running into problems with the query limits?

Answer

jcolebrand picture jcolebrand · May 27, 2010

The reason for the rate limiting by those guys is to charge a premium for a service, not because the infrastructure can't handle actual lookup requests. It's called a business model ;) :p

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