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 <domain> | 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