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Automatron - bulk cmd help

Discussion in 'Nominet Tag Holders' started by aquanuke, Jan 26, 2007.

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  1. aquanuke

    aquanuke Well-Known Member

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    Anyone know how I can do this..

    Everyday I reg' say 10-20 domains and I'd like to do a bulk call at the end of each day that will find all domains that have no NS records, ie the ones Ive most recently reg'd and then update those.

    How would I detect only those that have no NS records? Ive tried searching the 'nservers' with nothing, a space, and NULL. None of those work ie below as an example with NULL

    dry-run:
    filter: 'NULL' in nservers
    update: nservers = [ 'ns1.sedoparking.com','ns2.sedoparking.com' ]
     
  2. Paullas

    Paullas Super Moderator Staff Member

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    i use tagadmin (tagadmin.com) saves loads of time, well for me anyway.
     
  3. DaveBeasley Russian Federation

    DaveBeasley Nominet Member

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    I was going to say the same thing, using TagAdmin. Just request a domain LIST, import it and highlight all the names with no nameservers, then Bulk Update them. Easy!

    Dave
     
  4. aquanuke

    aquanuke Well-Known Member

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    Thats a bit overkill when I just want one wee little cmd :p

    Nahh Tagadmin would be no good for me as need to run from multiple locations and would have to be a unix console app as that all I work under.
     
  5. retired_member26

    retired_member26 Banned

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    Don't reg :)
     
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    grantw Well-Known Member

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    Post it to the [nom-tech] list mate, you'll get an answer quick sharp!

    Grant
     
  7. aquanuke

    aquanuke Well-Known Member

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    They must all be sleeping with the weekend, invincible will know the answer when he turns up :p
     
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    deconstruction Well-Known Member

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    could be me being dumb :)... but why dont you add the nameservers when you reg the names?
     
  9. aquanuke

    aquanuke Well-Known Member

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    I did think about that..

    I spread my domains between 3 parking companys + my own servers, and cant really pre plan where they will go as wont know what I will catch or miss. Really just the way Im setup the above fits my needs.

    The automatron is really pretty clever and has alot of bells and whistles.. just the documentation needs a brush up.
     
  10. invincible

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    Would it be possible for you to filter by the creation date field instead?
     
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  11. aquanuke

    aquanuke Well-Known Member

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    Thanks invincible, I think that should do what I need. Just means I have to change the dates each time.

     
  12. invincible

    invincible Well-Known Member

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    You could probably write a script to automate the date change each time, which would be easy if you were constantly running the script at a specific time each day.
     
  13. afx Thailand

    afx Active Member

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    Why dont you just code your catching script to send in a modify template automatically straight after it fires with the Sedo ns servers in it. As I'm sure you have your preferred default parking company and then just manually change each name if you want it parked elsewhere, which you would have to do anyway.
     
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  14. SF

    SF Well-Known Member

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    Hi and welcome afx :)

    That does seem the normal thing to do, you can tell the people that do it when you check the whois a few seconds later and see the name already updated.

    Sean






     
  15. aquanuke

    aquanuke Well-Known Member

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    Good thinking Batman :p I must be Batgirl I had to read that 3 times before I understood what you meant :p
     
  16. SF

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    Come on Chris your not getting enuf sleeep :p
     
  17. yesterday United Kingdom

    yesterday Active Member

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    your default nameserver should probably be name drive instead of s edo because namedrive will keep the revenue in a separate account until you enter the domain name into the nameserver system and then credit you with that revenue backdated, whereas s edo last time I checked, just keeps the revenue.

    - worth checking this as its only from memory.

    yesterday
     
  18. SF

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    Yup ND all the way for me for a far superior personal service.
     
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