RE: [PHP] Don't search for domains on Network Solutions...

> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Butera [mailto:eric.butera@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:57 PM > To: php php > Subject: [PHP] Don't search for domains on Network Solutions... > > ... otherwise this will happen: > > erics:~/Sites eric$ /opt/php5/bin/php networksolutions.php > Starting at 01/16/2008 12:36pm.Result: > ...snip... > Your Domain Name Search Results > Congratulations! The following domains are available > eric-butera-for-php-general > > > Then a few minutes later: > erics:~ eric$ whois eric-butera-for-php-general.com > ...snip... > > Domain Name: ERIC-BUTERA-FOR-PHP-GENERAL.COM > Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. > Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com > Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com > Name Server: NS1.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM > Name Server: NS2.RESERVEDDOMAINNAME.COM > Status: clientHold > Updated Date: 16-jan-2008 > Creation Date: 16-jan-2008 > Expiration Date: 16-jan-2009 > > > > networksolutions.php: > <?php > printf("Starting at %s.", date('m/d/Y h:ia')); > $url = > 'http://www.networksolutions.com/domainSearch.do'; > > $values = array( > 'domainNames' => 'eric-butera-for-php-general', > 'method-submit.x' => '', > 'method-submit.y' => '', > 'Search' => > '/domain-name-registration/domain-name-search-results.jsp', > 'allowBulk' => 'false', > 'currentPage' => '/home.jsp?layoutIdIndex=0', > 'formTargetPage' => '/domain-name-registration/index.jsp' > ); > > // semi-borrowed from Ojas Ojasvi php.net/curl because my vanilla post > was rejected > $header[] = "Accept: > text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/pla > in;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"; > $header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0"; > $header[] = "Connection: keep-alive"; > $header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300"; > $header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"; > $header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5"; > $header[] = "Pragma: "; > > $c = curl_init(); > curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); > curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_REFERER, > 'http://www.networksolutions.com'); > curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac > OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11'); > curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POST, true); > curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $values); > curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $url); > curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); > curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true); > > echo "Result:\n"; > echo curl_exec($c); > A couple of days ago I've come across this: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/network-solutions-exploits-icanns-fiveday-refund- rule-to-hoard-domains So... I don't even think that network solutions is the only one doing it. I know this is not strictly related to PHP, but I thought it would be a good idea to throw the warning. I think this is I-CANN's fault. Regards, Rob Andrés Robinet | Lead Developer | BESTPLACE CORPORATION 5100 Bayview Drive 206, Royal Lauderdale Landings, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 | TEL 954-607-4207 | FAX 954-337-2695 Email: info@bestplace.net | MSN Chat: best@bestplace.net | SKYPE: bestplace | Web: http://www.bestplace.biz | Web: http://www.seo-diy.com