Summary

This sensor returns the number of days before a .com .net .org .info .us .biz .ca .se .co.uk .pl .ru domain registration expires.

Parameters

`-k=`	`Your (FREE) Whois API key, to be obtained from whois.whoisxmlapi.com`
`-d=`	`The domain name to monitor`
`-nocheck`	`Skips the extention check and tries to gather the expiration date for any domain`

Version history

24.4.1.35 14-11-2024

Added parameter "preferfresh" to always request the latest info even if it is not complete

22.3.1.34 13-08-2022

Fix for various .uk domains

20.4.1.33 12-12-2020

Fix for error "No such host is known"
The sensor now requires a (FREE) api key to be obtained from whois.whoisxmlapi.com

20.3.1.32 07-07-2020

Compiled for .NET Framework 4.7
Fix for .si domains

20.1.1.31 09-03-2020

Fix for .it domains

19.2.1.30 02-05-2019

Fix for .com.cn and .com.sg domains

19.1.1.29 03-03-2019

Fix for .co.il domains

18.4.2.28 04-11-2018

Fix for .se domains

18.4.1.27 13-10-2018

Added support for domainregistrations not using whois-servers.net

18.1.2.26 02-04-2018

Improved execution time
Cashed result prevents public IP being blocked
Compiled for .NET Framework 4.6

17.3.1.24 02-08-2017

Fix for co.th domains

17.1.1.23 12-03-2017

Fix for several .ru domains

16.3.1.22 19-07-2016

Fix for .co.uk domans.

16.2.1.21 19-06-2016

Fix for output change on http://who.is for some domains

16.1.2.19 13-03-2016

New: added support for .ru domains

16.1.1.18 14-01-2016

New: added support for .pl domains

15.3.3.17 14-09-2015

New: -nocheck parameter skips the extension check and tries to gather the expiration date for any domain.

15.3.2.16 25-08-2015

New: added support for .co.uk domains

15.3.1.15 17-08-2015

New: added support for .my domains

15.1.2.14 27-03-2015

Changed error messages from alternate source

15.1.1.13 23-03-2015

Fix for changed output from whois.com

14.2.3.12 04-06-2014

New: added a fallback provider

14.1.2.9 08-02-2014

New: added support for .se domains

14.1.1.8 26-01-2014

Fix for various .org domain names
Compiled for the .NET Framework 4.0

13.3.1.7 23-09-2013

New: added support for .ca domains

13.2.2.6 22/05/2013

Changed: better handling for falsely reported negative values and "No expiration date found" errors.

13.1.1.4 24/02/2013

Bugfix: as whois changed its output, the sensor returned "No expiration date found"

12.4.1.3 03/09/2012

Bugfix: the expiration date was not always correctly updated and could even show negative values. The sensor now uses a IE instance to simulate a web browser.
Changed: dropped the proxy parameters as any proxy settings are now taken form your IE proxy settings.

12.2.2.2 16/08/2012

Bugfix: some domains returned error "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime."

12.2.1.1 27/06/2012

First public version