how much work would it be to configure a custom dns server to return the registrar of a domain in response to a query say : dig _reg.example.com txt | Output would be something like "Godaddy" or "Enom" etc perhaps a whois api I can use to return xml or json output heh, you mean like whois | grep Registrar yea, but in a url format I can parse within Google Sheets I dont mind running the api on my server awk/sed/perl python/php/intercal/brainf**k nathani: There are already some whois "API"s out there, why wouldn't you use one of them? Or what about writing your own HTTP API, why insist on a DNS-type response? dns would cache? So does/can HTTP nginx can even do it I managed to pull together some php with the right output now I need to figure out how to get it into google sheets my JSON foo is weak http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_fastcgi_module.html#fastcgi_cache makes it pretty easy and transparent. thanks np thought it was you one of your many nicks 3. I have 3 nicks I use. Not "many" :P I guess you dont count bryebot brycebot even brycec_m I seen KILL ALL HUMANS etc Correct, I'm not counting bots that also identify under my freenode account