For Sale Correction for Registry Renew Date

[Nexus]

Had a question, is the following LOGIC a valid "correction" for the registry auto-renew date in the Internic.net whois?

[color=navy][b]CORRECTS for Registry Renewed Expire Date:
{

if (TODAYsDATE is before EXPIREDATE) then keep EXPIREDATE

if (STATUS equals PENDINGDELETE or REDEMPTION) then keep EXPIREDATE

if (STATUS doesn't equal PENDINGDELETE or REDEMPTION) and
(TODAYsDATE is after EXPIREDATE) then minus 1 year from EXPIREDATE

}[/b][/color]

Simplifying this, it becomes:

[color=navy][b]CORRECTS for Registry Renewed Expire Date:
{

IF (STATUS doesn't equal PENDINGDELETE or REDEMPTION) and
(TODAYsDATE is after EXPIREDATE) then minus 1 year from EXPIREDATE
OTHERWISE keep EXPIREDATE 

}[/b][/color]

Does that body of logic correct the expiration date in all scenarios? Do any scenarios fall outside of this that anyone knows of?

~ Nexus

 

[mole]

Say what?

 

[Nexus]

Sorry, I might be talking in half-thoughts.

Taking into account that the registry automatically "renews" expired domains for a year, the expire date at Internic.net is not "correct" after domains expire (in regards to the intention of the registrant). So if for instance, you look at the Internic record for MORPHEOUS.NET:
http://www.freewho.com/checker/?q=morpheous.net

It correctly says that the domain expires on "Feb 26, 2003" (because it's in currently redemption). It is past the expiration date, but the expire date listed is correct.

If however, you look at GHETTONINJA.COM:
http://www.freewho.com/checker/?q=ghettoninja.com

It currently says that the domain expires on "Apr 05, 2004". This is actually not true. Looking at the WHOIS record at Opensrs.net, it shows the domain name expired on "Apr 05, 2003". It is past the true expiration date, so the Internic expire date listed is NOT correct. It has been auto-renewed and shows the auto-renew date.

I'm just working out the logic, based wholly on the Internic database, in finding out the "true" expiration date of the name.

In another instance, we have DOMAINMALL.COM:
http://www.freewho.com/checker/?q=ghettoninja.com

It shows a registrar whois expiration of "Oct 15, 2002". Internic shows "Oct 15, 2003", and the domain is still active, with no signs of dropping (because its regged with NetSol...). The logic above is meant to ferret out the "correction" that needs to happen when looking only at the registry database.

The reason I'm doing this, is that for .COM and .NET domains, the FreeWho "Status Checker" script only looks at whois.internic.net for its returns. I want the "expiration date" it returns to be "true" and not "arbitrary" when visitors are trying to get accurate information about their list of names.

Thanks,
~ Nexus

 

[Nexus]

I thought of a problem.

There is a period in the morning AFTER the domain expires, that my calculation above may be wrong. Basically before Verisign updates the whois.

I parse this for this date as well, so I can correct for it I think.

[color=navy][b]CORRECTS for Registry Renewed Expire Date:
{

IF (STATUS doesn't equal PENDINGDELETE or REDEMPTION) and
  (TODAYsDATE is after EXPIREDATE) and 
  (TODAYsDATE is after WHOIS-UPDATEDATE) 
  then minus 1 year from EXPIREDATE
OTHERWISE keep EXPIREDATE 

}[/b][/color]

~ Nexus