I've been playing around with the PHP sample site for eNom (the one that comes with the API documentation) and I'm getting false positives from domain searches (eg. two of my own domains, registered to me, are coming back as available.)

Has anyone else had problems with the whois using the eNom API?

This would seem to be serious. (On the other hand, yahoo.com came back as taken, so it *does* work sometimes.)

Aral

Well, I've narrowed it down: The machine at resellertest.enom.com is giving the false positives for domain names. I guess it must be working off older code or an older whois database or something.

The actual site (reseller.enom.com) gives the correct whois response. You can compare the two queries and responses, below, starting with the false positive:

http://resellertest.enom.com//interface.asp?command=check&tld=com&sld=aralbalkan&responsetype=text

;URL Interface
;Machine number is 1
RRPCode=210 RRPText=Domain name available Command=CHECK ErrCount=0 Server=ResellerTest Site=eNom Done=true

* * *

http://reseller.enom.com//interface.asp?command=check&tld=com&sld=aralbalkan&responsetype=text

;URL Interface
;Machine number is 5
RRPCode=211 RRPText=Domain name not available Command=CHECK ErrCount=0 Server=Reseller3 Site=eNom Done=true

Aral :)

Last time I checked, the resellertest box works off a blank whois DB, ie every domain in the world will be available.

Adam

That's correct. It just a blank DB!!

Originally posted by ag-webdesign
Last time I checked, the resellertest box works off a blank whois DB, ie every domain in the world will be available.

Adam

Not really: If you try things like "yahoo" or "mydomain" (com) then they come back as taken.

I believe they get added to the test database as you register them from resellertest (eg. after I registered the name, the next check I did came back as negative -- ie., registered.)

Aral

Where can I find documentation about php API for eNom reseller?

Thank you