Whois Database Launched

Finally I decided to rewrite the whole whois tool, and this time add it to webdigity.

The new tool is located at http://www.webdigity.com/ws/ and you can simply perform a query by adding to this url the tld you want to know more about, eg. http://www.webdigity.com/ws/webdigity.com

Bellow is the old announcement for the topsites whois tool (which is now redirected here) :

It is a very informative site, but I think you should give it a better layout

For some reason I get a 502 Bad Gateway error.

???

I've checked it and it is ok. Are you still getting an error message?

I got a "Cannot find server" on IE... ???

The propagation of the domain is still not finished. Right now the site is visible only in the us.

I get a 404 aswell.

Yea not loading here either.

Yeah unfortunately it isn't working here either. Sounds like it will be a very nice site though.

That's too sad.

The reason that you can't see the site is the  domain propagation.

I can't understand how is this possible, because if you see the forum you should also see the whois.the... because I made the dns change for it before the forum's launch.

Hmmm I don't know, hopefully you can get it fixed though because I wanted to check it out.

I can see the site, and I like it.

It is simple but very effective, as it shows all the usefull information about any domain name.

Good work Nikolas

:( I still can't see it, I don't understand why. Computers are so crazy.

Works great. I just tried it again.

Very nice and very informative site.

I will use it to be informed of the SEO progress of my sites

Cool site, but the pagerank seems to be a bit off.  On one of my sites it shows up 0/10 when all other sites show a 2/10.

Propably you should try to update the page using the link in the bottom of the page

The site is very useful.
Do you collect the data realtime then put it in a database for future queries of that domain?
Oh, and the Pagerank thing is because pagerank differs between www. and without it, so I think when retrieving the whois info, it truncates the www. so the PR is the one for the site without the www.

That's right. We take the www. pagerank.

The data are collected real time.

As for the query, I don't use a database (it would be a pain in the ass having million of records in a database), I just have a caching system, which will keep the cached page for 3 months.

My first post has been edited as there is a new whois tool in the neighborhood :)

Use this thread to post feedback about it.

Trackback from Webdigity - Thoughts on SEO and Web development

Yesterday we added a new module to the webdigity webmaster community, which can be very usefull to site owners, and to people who intend to buy domains and web sites.
The whois lookup tool retrieves various whois and SEO information regarding the domai...

Interesting. Only two days from the launch of our new whois tool, and there have been allready done 1000 queries :)

Hey Nikolas, very nice info you get from your script, plus I like the thumbnail of the site, great idea.

Thanks, I am glad that you like it :)

The thumbnails are coming from a new beta service for thumbnails, which is owned by a member of our community. If for some reason you want it too, you can ask me to reveal the secret :)

Cheers Nikolas. When I need a script like that I'll pm you straight away ;)

Great work nikolas.
it is very informative and helpful site.
you should update all these

Nice site. It's very informative this is very useful. I will use it.