domain-check checks to see if a domain has expired. domain-check can be run in interactive and batch mode, and provides faciltities to alarm if a domain is about to expire.

• whois
• awk

• Copy the script into your path (e.g. /usr/local/bin/)
• Make script executable: chmod +x domain-check

Refer to the usage() sub-routine, or invoke domain-check with the "-h" option.

The first example will print the expiration date and registrar for prefetch.net:

$ domain-check.sh -d prefetch.net

Domain                              Registrar         Status   Expires     Days Left
----------------------------------- ----------------- -------- ----------- ---------
prefetch.net                        INTERCOSMOS MEDIA Valid    13-feb-2006   64   

The second example prints the expiration date and registrar for the domains listed in the file "domains":

$ domain-check.sh -f domains    

Domain                              Registrar         Status   Expires     Days Left
----------------------------------- ----------------- -------- ----------- ---------
sun.com                             NETWORK SOLUTIONS Valid    20-mar-2010   1560 
google.com                          EMARKMONITOR INC. Valid    14-sep-2011   2103 
ack.com                             NETWORK SOLUTIONS Valid    09-may-2008   880  
prefetch.net                        INTERCOSMOS MEDIA Valid    13-feb-2006   64   
spotch.com                          GANDI             Valid    03-dec-2006   357  

The third example will e-mail the address [email protected] with the domains that will expire in 60-days or less:

$ domain-check -a -f domains -q -x 60 -e [email protected]  

Since each registrar provides expiration data in a unique format (if they provide it at all), domain-check is currently only able to processess expiration information for a subset of the available registrars.

Please submit a patch / pull request if you want to add support for your registrar and/or TLD.

Copyright (C) 2012 Francois Marier [email protected] 2007 Matty This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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