Changes

Revision history for Perl module Net::Whois::Raw.

2.99040 June 24 2024 Alexander Nalobin
    - Added .спб.рф domain

2.99039 Apr 16 2024 Alexander Nalobin
    - https://github.com/regru/Net-Whois-Raw/pull/26

2.99038  Feb 29 2024 Alexander Nalobin
    - Fix whois servers for some CentralNic tlds

2.99037  Jun 21 2022 Alexander Nalobin
    - Fix whois servers for .ai

2.99036  Jun 21 2022 Alexander Nalobin
    - Fix whois servers for .cat and .tel

2.99035  May 25 2022    Alexander Nalobin
    - Added .ink, .wiki, .design not found patterns

2.99034  Apr 18 2022    Alexander Nalobin
    - .ink, .wiki, .design moved from centralnic

2.99033  Sep 29 2021    Alexander Nalobin
    - utf8 encoding fix in pwhois script

2.99032  Aug 17 2021 Alexander Nalobin
    - Fix whois server for .mx

2.99031  Sep 1 2020 Alexander Tsoy
    - Fix whois server for .mx

2.99030  Aug 7 2020 Chase Venters
    - Fix whois server for .in (India)

2.99029  Jun 26 2020 Alexander Nalobin
    - Fix whois servers of some tlds
    - Small refactor for get_server()

2.99028  May 9 2020 Eugeny Subachev
    - Deleting duplicates from notfound and servers
    - Fix whois server of xn--ses554g tld

2.99027  Feb 24 2020 Alexander Nalobin
    - pwhois script refactoring
    - Can pass arbitrary query part to pwhois script

2.99026  Oct 25 2019 Alexander Nalobin
    - Change whois.rightside.co whois server to whois.donuts.co

2.99025  Oct 24 2019 Eugeny Subachev
    - Fixed 'not found' pattern for whois.nic.so
    - New tld .NET.SO

2.99024  Oct 10 2019 Eugeny Subachev
    - A lot of new tlds added

2.99023  Oct 09 2019 Eugeny Subachev
    - New tlds .ORG.HN, .NET.HN

2.99022  Jul 12 2019 Dave Hayes
    Fix caching for QRY_ALL (https://github.com/regru/Net-Whois-Raw/pull/19)

2.99021  Nov 20 2018 Eugeny Subachev
    - Fixed/added 'not found' patterns of net.ua vg gd kiwi sx TLDs.

2.99020  Sep 24 2018 Alexander Nalobin
    - fix recursive whois regexp. Now matches \r\n line endings. 

2.99019  Sep 24 2018 Alexander Nalobin
    - fix precedence in 2.99016 fix, thanx to Slaven Rezić.

2.99018  Aug 29 2018 Eugeny Subachev
    - - Fixed/added 'not found' patterns of hn com.hn cd TLDs.

2.99017  Aug 28 2018 Eugeny Subachev
    - Added whois servers of some TLDs.
    - Fixed/added 'not found' patterns of many whois servers.  

2.99016  Jul 18 2018 Alexander Nalobin
    - fixed recursion to referal whois servers in QRY_FIRST mode

2.99015  Jun 14 2018 Sergei Sedinkin
    - new whois server for .net.ru, .org.ru and .pp.ru domains

2.99014  May 8 2018 Alexander Nalobin
    - whois.unitedtld.com is no longer a whois server (https://github.com/regru/Net-Whois-Raw/issues/16)

2.99013  Dec 13 2017 Alexander Nalobin
    - Added "notfound" and "strip" patterns for whois.registry.ripn.net

2.99012  Dec 11 2017 Vadim Likhota
    - update notfound data and whois servers for some tlds

2.99011  Nov 23 2017 Alexander Nalobin
    - Skip urls as recursive whois servers

2.99010  Jul 31 2017 Alexander Nalobin
    - CI regexp in recursive whois server match

2.99009  Jun 24 2017 Gregory Oschwald
    - Do not warn if newsrv is undefined

2.99008  Jun 7 2017 Alexander Nalobin
    - can bypass recursing to custom servers ($Net::Whois::Raw::Data::whois_servers_no_recurse)

2.99007  May 22 2017 Vadiml Likhota
    - revert broken $which_whois default behavior

2.99006  Feb 1 2017 Alexander Nalobin
    - pwhois script approves IDN domains (ɢoogle.com)

2.99005  Jan 26 2017 Oleg Gavrin
     - speed optimizations

2.99004    2017 Vadiml Likhota
    - fix whois for .LA

2.99003  Nov 22 2016 Oleg Gavrin, Christian Walde, Vadim Likhota, Alexander Nalobin
    - maintanance tool for Data.pm
    - a lot of new gTLDs whois servers added and fixed
    - "not found" patterns fixed
    - new tlds .NG, *.TH, .ID
    - fix whois for .AU, .TH

2.99002  Oct 17 2016 Alexander Nalobin, Vadim Likhota, Anton Chuvashev
    - get rid of unused DBI dependency
    - whois.iana.org for tld only query
    - new tlds .RADIO.AM, .RADIO.FM, .SHOP, .SHOPPING, .GAMES
    - new tld .HELP

2.99001  Aug 01 2016 Vadim Likhota
    - new tlds .PROMO, .ART, .FORUM
    - fix whois for .JOBS, .LA, .MOBI
    - set default whois whois.nic.TLD

2.99    Jul 05 2016 Andrey Voyshko
    - new tlds .GROUP

2.98    Jun 22 2016 Anton Chuvashev
    - new tlds .TUBE

2.97    Jun 06 2016 Vadim Likhota
    - fix whois for .NET.RU, .ORG.RU, .PP.RU
    - new zones .STORE, .VIP

2.96    Mar 31 2016 Anton Chuvashev
    - new tlds .GAME, .PROMO

2.95    May 24 2016 Alexander Nalobin
    - new tld .VIP
    - Update ZA, PRIV.AT whois, not available/exceed sentences thanx to @zdm

2.94    Mar 31 2016 Alexander Nalobin
    - new tlds .CAFE, .QA
    - new 'not found' message of whois-dub.mm-registry.com

2.93    Mar 06 2016 Vadim Likhota
    - fix whois for .CC, .RU.NET, .COM.RU, .EXNET.RU, *.RU & *.SU geodomains
    - new tlds .CLOUD, .BET, .PET, .AUTO, .CAR, .CARS, .BEST, .BROKER, .CAREER, .COURSES, .EARTH, .FILM, .FOREX, .MEN, .SRL, .STUDY, .FAMILY, .LIVE, .STUDIO

2.92    Feb 10 2016  Vadim Likhota
    - fix clear disclaimer for .ME, .MOBY .NAME, and .ORG
    - fix whois for .OOO, .LA, .PRO and .PW
    - new tlds .CONTACT, .FAN, .PID and .REALTY

2.91    Oct 28 2015 Vadim Likhota
    - even more new tlds of whois.centralnic.com

2.89, 2.90    Oct 27 2015 Alexander Nalobin
    - more new tlds of whois.centralnic.com

2.88    Oct 27 2015 Alexander Nalobin
    - new tld .SITE

2.87    Sep 28 2015 Alexander Nalobin & Hugo Salgado
    - basic IPv6 server support

2.86    Sep 01 2015 Alexander Nalobin
    - QRY_LAST/QRY_FIRST caching issue fix

2.85    Jul 09 2015 Alexander Nalobin
    - new tld .PRESS

2.84    Mar 27 2015 Alexander Nalobin
    - new tld .TATAR

2.83    Mar 24 2015 Alexander Nalobin
    - Fix getting whois of ARIN IP addresses
    - Fix .sh и .pro "not found" patterns

2.82    Jan 23 2015 Alexander Nalobin
    - whois.jprs.jp whois server's encoding is UTF-8

2.81    Jan 21 2015 Igor Zhuk
    - new tld .MOSCOW

2.80    Dec 03 2014 Alexander Nalivayko
    - new tld .OOO

2.79    Oct 18 2014 Dmitriy Shamatrin
    - Added possibility to specify list of ips for selected whois servers
    - Refactored logic for @SRC_IPS

2.78    Oct 07 2014 Alexander Nalobin
    - new tld .МОСКВА ( XN--80ADXHKS )

2.77    Jul 17 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - new tld .WIEN

2.76    Jul 2 2014 Alexander Nalobin
    - hide internet dependent tests

2.75    Jul 2 2014 Alexander Nalobin
    - deps fix

2.74    Jul 1 2014 Alexander Nalobin
    - tests cleaning

2.73    Jun 25 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - new tlds of http://uniregistry.com

2.72    Jun 17 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - new tlds of http://mm-registry.com

2.71    Jun 03 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - Add whois for .PW

2.70    Jun 02 2014 Alexander Nalobin
    - RT#96078 Fixed LANG handling in pwhois script

2.69    May 27 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - change whois for .орг

2.68    May 21 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - new tlds of donuts.co

2.67    May 08 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - new tlds .LUXURY

2.66    May 08 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - new tlds of United TLD Holdco Ltd (http://rightside.co)

2.65    Apr 24 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - new tlds .CLUB

2.64    Apr 22 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - new tlds .PINK .RED .SHIKSHA .KIM .BLUE

2.63    Apr 17 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - Add whois.nic.build for .BUILD

2.62    Apr 16 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - Add whois.dot-kiwi.com for .KIWI

2.61    Apr 02 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - Add zones for whois.uniregistry.net

2.60    Mar 21 2014 Dmitriy Shamatrin
    - Added query suffix
    - Added timeout to 02-internet.t for hangs prevention

2.59    Mar 12 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - Fixed .domains whois error

2.58    Mar 12 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - Add whois servers for gtld: .berlin

2.57    Feb 25 2014 Victor Efimov
    - Fix whois server for .BZ

2.56    Feb 25 2014 Anton Chuvashev
    - new tlds XN--D1ACJ3B, XN--80ASWG, XN--80ASEHDB

2.55    Feb 24 2014 Alexander Nalobin
    - RT#91930 Boilerplate stripping

2.54    Feb 18 2014 Dmitriy Seluzhitskiy
    - Add whois server for gtld, managed by Sugar Glen, LLC (http://donuts.co)

2.53    Feb 07 2014 Alexander Nalobin
    - TODAY whois server added

2.52    Jan 24 2014 Alexander Nalobin
    - Handling exceed limits of whois.name.com
      and in recursive queries ( set $CHECK_EXCEED = 2 )

2.51    Jan 16 2014 Victor Efimov
    - RT#60339 fixed regexp for parsing .TJ web whois
    - RT#64960 extend regexp for ReferralServer parsing (for recursive whois)
    - Several timeout/alarm issues:
        Fix race-condition between ALRM handler cleared and
          alarm timer cleared (could result process to exit with signalal - i.e.
          not possible to catch as die(), and no destructions called).
        Fix action-at-distance - we were clearing alarm timer to zero, if alarm is
          not used (i.e if TIMEOUT zero).
        Substract time spent in request from outer alarm
    - Fixed: unicode whois was damaging when using caching
        Under POSIX systems pwhois now uses TMPDIR env, not TEMP.

2.50    Jan 13 2014 Alexander Nalobin
    - Handling exceed limits of whois.nic.cz
    - IO whois updated.
    - BY whois added.

2.49    Dec 13 2013 Victor Efimov
    - IN.NET, HR whois server added
    - AC whois server fixed

2.48    Sep 19 2013 Walery Studennikov
    - Fixed encoding for com.ua domains

2.47    Sep 13 2013 Timur Nozadze
    - Fixed "not found" parsing form whois.centralnic.com

2.46    Feb 12 2013 Alexander Nalobin
    - Fixed TJ web whois (broken html)

2.45    Jan 31 2013 Alexander Nalobin
    - Using whois.netcom.cm for CM instead of web whois
    - TV whois server updated
    - BZ web whois updated
    - MU, IN, CN web whois removed

2.44    Jan 11 2013 Alexander Nalobin
    - IPv6 whois support with Regexp::IPv6

2.43    Aug 21 2012    gleecology
    - IPv6 whois support

2.42    Jul 11 2012    Alexander Nalobin
    - utf8 encoding fix

2.41    Mar 14 2012    Timur Nozadze
    - Case-insensitive match for "not found" messages

2.40    Jan 31 2012    Alex Bykov
    - Now you can redefine SOCK_CLASS::getline method as you want
    - require_once for Data::Dumper

2.39    Dec 26 2011     Walery Studennikov
        - internet tests updated
    - Net::Whois::Raw::Data addons / updates, thanx to Guillaume

2.38    Dec 09 2011     Walery Studennikov
        - Confess instead of die to simplify error tracing

2.37    Nov 24 2011     Walery Studennikov
        - Fixed whois server address for *.ua domains

2.36    Oct 25 2011     Ilya Chesnokov
        - Fixed regexp for .PRO whois check

2.35    Sep 06 2011     Ilya Chesnokov
        - Added whois server for .XXX zone
        - Fixed BZ whois (restored whois.belizenic.bz server)

2.34    Aug 01 2011     Ilya Chesnokov
        - Added whois server for .IN.UA zone

2.33    Jul 29 2011     Ilya Chesnokov
        - Added whois server for .CO.UA zone

2.32    May 19 2011     Timur Nozadze
        - Deleted whitespaces removing from the whois result

2.31    Feb 28 2011     Ilya Chesnokov
        - Added whois server for .SO zone

2.30    Feb 09 2011     Walery Studennikov
        - confess -> die :: no need to die such verbosely

2.29    Jan 31 2011     Walery Studennikov
        - Further migration from whois.relcom.ru to whois.nic.ru

2.28    Jan 24 2011     Walery Studennikov
        - whois.relcom.ru is no more. Using whois.nic.ru instead.
        - Removed crutches for whois.relcom.ru / www_whois

2.27    Nov 11 2010     Timur Nozadze
        - Added domain name validation in pwhois
        - Updated some 'not found' string

2.26    Oct 06 2010     Timur Nozadze
        - Fixed problem with passing server parameter from command line in pwhois
        - Fixed problem with encoding detection in pwhois on Windows
        - Added convertation to punycode in pwhois

2.25    Sep 02 2010     Ilya Chesnokov
        - And then again to www_whois (but to another URL)

2.24    Sep 01 2010     Ilya Chesnokov
        - For .BZ domains whois server changed from www_whois to whois.belizenic.bz

2.23    Aug 25 2010    Walery Studennikov
    - Fixed problem with tests for .TJ domains

2.22    Apr 26 2010    Walery Studennikov
    - Fixed $CACHE_TIME parameter documentation
        - Fixed .CM zone processing
        - Added real whois server for .KG zone

2.21    Apr 20 2010     Ilya Chesnokov
        - Added whois servers for zones: .MD, .GD, .HT, .IM, .KI, .LC, .TRAVEL, .FM, .CO
        - Fixed whois servers for zones: .LA, .SB, .VN
        - Fixed %strip hash for .CX, .MU, .NL, .TL
        - Added .CM zone

2.20    Apr 01 2010    Walery Studennikov
    - $Net::Whois::Raw::USE_CNAMES option removed (who needs it??)
    - Crutch for rechecking RELCOM-domains through WWW
        - added 'not found' string for .kg domains

2.19    Mar 26 2010    Walery Studennikov
    - Exceed patterns updated for whois.eu
    - Fixed whois_config (CHECK_EXCEED support)

2.18    Mar 25 2010    Walery Studennikov
    - Coro tests are turned off by default

2.17    Feb 24 2010    Roman V. Nikolaev
    - external hooks support: whois_query_sockparams, whois_query_socket, whois_query_ua

2.16    Feb 24 2010    Alexander Ponomarev
    - fixed 'www whois' test

2.15    Feb 1 2010    Andrey Suslov
    - added more tests to MANIFEST

2.14    Feb 1 2010    Andrey Suslov
    - search DNS-servers in .org, .biz, .name zones through
      a whois-server of appropriate zone

2.13    Jan 17 2010    Andrey Suslov
    - fixed 'v-string' portability warning
      (Ticket https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=53084)

2.12    Dec 8 2009    Walery Studennikov
    - now we require perl 5.8.1 and Encode

2.11    Dec 1 2009    David T Dzhanaev
    - fixed 02-internet.t tests broken when no connection
      (Ticket https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=41712)
    - fixed Cache broken in taint mode
      (Ticket https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=47216)

2.10    Nov 30 2009    David T Dzhanaev
    - fixed -A param in pwhois
      (Ticket https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=52144)

2.09    Nov 26 2009    David T Dzhanaev
    - support geographic domains for .RU and .SU zones

2.08    Nov 24 2009    David T Dzhanaev
    - multiple ccTLD zones added
    - fixed case-sensitive search for an appropriate whois

2.07    Nov 24 2009     Walery Studennikov
    - support for cyrillic .RF domain
    - fixes for multilingual TLDs

2.06    Oct 22 2009     Ilya Chesnokov
    - added internal answer postprocessing

2.05    Sep 21 2009     Ilya Chesnokov, Vadim Likhota
    - fix for .MN zone
    - fixes for COM.UA ORG.UA KIEV.UA BIZ.UA zones
    - add zone PP.UA

2.04    Sep 16 2009    Walery Studennikov
    - Support for list of whois servers which has no idn support

2.03    Sep 10 2009    Andrey Kuzmin
    - add five zones: COM.UA ORG.UA KIEV.UA BIZ.UA NOV.RU

2.02    Aug 28 2009
    - fix for twocows (by DAVINCHI)
    - fix for "perl spits out an error if $res_srv is undefined" (by Ian Stuart)

2.01    May 14 2009    Walery Studennikov
    - support exceed pattern for .ws

2.00    Mar 31 2009     Walery Studennikov, Vadim Likhota
        - core now uses unicode (MAJOR CHANGE!!!!)
        - all the data in Net::Whois::Raw::Data are counterchecked
        - duplicating 'strip_whois' and 'check_existance' functions are deleated from Net::Whois::Raw::Common,
          now only the data from Net::Whois::Raw::Data are used instead of them
        - now flags OMIT_MSG and CHECK_FAIL supports only true and false values.
          Support for OMIT_MSG == 2 and CHECK_FAIL == 2 was dropped.
    - fixes for .CN and .VN domains

1.67    Mar 30 2009    Alexey Sharipov
    - fixed caching issues

1.66    Mar 26 2009     Walery Studennikov
    - fixed tests

1.65    Mar 25 2009     Walery Studennikov
        - add whois server for .TEL domains
    - SPB.RU and MSK.RU zones are removed from www_whois

1.64    Feb 25 2009     Vadim Likhota, Walery Studennikov
        - add www.nic.tj whois via www_whois_query (now whois.nic.tj not work)

1.63    Feb 09 2009    Walery Studennikov
    - turn off test for www_whois_query for 'nic.ac'. It fails too often

1.62    Feb 04 2009    Walery Studennikov
    - fixed getting whois info via HTTP from nic.ac

1.61    Jan 27 2009     Vadim Likhota, Walery Studennikov
        - add whois.nic.name for .NS query for .name domains in addition for whois.nsiregistry.net
    - add Test::More to module requirements
    - add colourable user agent to satisfy http://nic.ac/

1.60    Nov 14 2008    Walery Studennikov
    - pwhois script rewritten (use Getopt::Long)
    - small bugfixes + code layout foxes

1.59    Nov 14 2008    ivan baktsheev
    - now client can offer his own dns resolver and smart local socket selection
    - added option to change default socket
    - added "banned" message from internic

1.58    Nov 07 2008     Walery Studennikov
    - Added .BZ support (www_whois)

1.57    Aug 11 2008     Walery Studennikov
    - Removed annoying warning from Net/Whois/Raw.pm

1.56    Jul 31 2008     Pavel Odintsov
        - .vn support fixed
        - HTTP POST requests fixed

1.54    Jun 28 2008    Matsui Shinsuke
    - .ac support added

1.53    Mar 31 2008    Sergey Kotenko
    - fixed warnings on cache writing

1.52    Mar 26 2008     Walery Studennikov
        - .asia support added

1.51    Mar 12 2008     Sergey Kotenko
        - test 02-internet.t fixed to work correctly on MS Windows.

1.50    Mar 11 2008    Sergey Kotenko
    - version bounce due to a large refactoring
    - some more code moved to Net::Whois::Raw::Common
    - new caching mechanism
    - tests writen for Net::Whois::Raw::Common
        - tests writen for checking the correctness of whois-servers

1.43    Feb 29 2008    Sergey Kotenko
    - common code moved to Net::Whois::Raw::Common. Can be used by other modules.

1.42    Feb 25 2008    Sergey Kotenko
    - added whois server (http) for .VN

1.41    Feb 08 2008    Sergey Kotenko
    - added %Net::Whois::Raw::POSTPROCESS

1.40    Feb 04 2008    Sergey Kotenko
    - fixed parsing of excessive querying for whois.ripn.net

1.39    Nov 22 2007    Walery Studennikov
    - added strip patterns for whois.nordnet.net

1.38    Nov 21 2007    Walery Studennikov
    - added strip patterns for whois.dotster.com

1.37    Nov 20 2007    Walery Studennikov
    - added strip patterns for whois.godaddy.com, whois.paycenter.com.cn, whois.enom.com

1.36    Nov 15 2007    Walery Studennikov
    - update documentation (setup variables description)
    - change "use vars" to "our" in Net::Whois::Raw::Data
    - start to build postprocessing framework (added %Net::Whois::Raw::Data::postprocess)

1.35    Nov 06 2007    Walery Studennikov
    - strip copyright notices for .mobi domains

1.33    Oct 10 2007    Walery Srudennikov
    - added whois servers for many CentralNIC TLDs in New::Whois::Raw::Data

1.32    Sep 07 2007    Walery Srudennikov
    - added support for WHOIS requests for any object (not only for domain),
      for example, WHOIS requests for registrars now supported

1.31    Sep 06 2007    Walery Studennikov
    - fexes in pwhois caused by today's module changes

1.30    Sep 06 2007    Walery Studennikov
    - Carp::confess instead of die when can't connect
    - Don't use Exporter anymore; revised export list (can cause some incompatibilities, so version number bumped)

1.24    Aug 15 2007    Walery Studennikov
    - More descriptive error message when can't create socket

1.23    May 22 2007
    - Added $DEBUG initialization (Walery Studennikov)
    - Path for obtaining complete WHOIS info for .name domains (Yulia Shtyrjakova)

1.22    May 16 2007    Walery Studennikov
    - Removed legacy RACE encoding support
    - Default cache time set to 60 minutes
    - Fixed timeout behaviour. Now timeouts are more robust
      (Ticket http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27097)
    - Small refactoring

1.21    Apr 13 2007    Danil Krivopustov
    - fixes for Net::Whois::Raw::Data

1.20    Nov 18 2006    Walery Studennikov
    - !INTERFACE CHANGE: CACHE_TIME now specifies time in minutes,
      not in hours. Hours are too rough for some applications. Sorry :(
    - Bumped version number for the above reason

1.14    Aug 24 2006    Doug Barton
    - Addons to Net::Whois::Raw::Data

1.13    Aug 20 2006    Doug Barton
    - Addons + restyling of Net::Whois::Raw::Data

1.12    Aug 16 2006    Roman Filippov
    - changed whois server for .gs

1.11    Aug 10 2006
    - changed whois server for .aero (Danil Krivopustov)
    - added fail check for whois.melbourneit.com (Yulia Shtyrjakova)

1.10    Jul 30 2006    K. J. Cheetham
    - addons to %Net::Whois::Raw::Data::exceed hash

1.09    Jul 27 2006    Reto Grossenbacher
    - fixed strip patterns for yesterday's changes

1.08    Jul 26 2006    Reto Grossenbacher
    - changed WHOIS servers for .CH and .LI domains

1.07    Apr 12 2006    Martin Lee
    - replaced .JP whois server address

1.06    Apr 03 2006    Walery Studennikov
    - fix manual page for pwhois script

1.05    Apr 03 2006    Walery Studennikov
    - added new options to pwhois script

1.04    Mar 22 2006    Bram
    - added whois.eu server

1.03    Mar 21 2006    David Parry
    - change whois server name for .CA

1.02    Feb 04 2006    Walery Studennikov
    - change version numbering scheme
    - change pynycode names of IDN names

1.1.2    Jan 18 2006    Walery Studennikov
    - switch .spb.ru and .msk.ru to HTTP

1.1.1    Jan 18 2006    Walery Studennikov
    - fix WHOIS-over-HTTP: added missing function koi2win,

1.1.0    Jan 16 2006    Walery Studennikov
    - improved obtaining WHOIS of IP addresses.
      Patterns for recursive WHOIS queries were borrowed
      from Net::Whois::IP. Many thanks to Net::Whois::IP author Ben Schmitz

1.0.1    Jan 13 2006    Danil Krivopustov <KrivopustovDA@regtime.net>
    - fixed obtaining WHOIS of IP addresses (split_domname function)

1.0.0    Jan 11 2006    Walery Studennikov
    - new major release: added obtaining WHOIS results via HTTP:
      now .IN and .KZ domains are queried via HTTP by default.
      To force querying other domain via HTTP you should provide
      server name 'www_whois'

0.99  Jan 10 2006    Walery Studennikov
    - added whois server for .KZ

0.98  Sep 19 2005    Bernd Ahlers <b.ahlers@ba-net.org>
    - small typo fixes

0.97  Jul 26 2005    Bernd Ahlers <b.ahlers@ba-net.org>
    - update for DENIC whois server

0.96  Jun 28 2005    Walery Studennikov
    - ???

0.95  May 16 2005    Walery Studennikov
    - new parameter "-a" (source ip address) in pwhois script

0.94  Apr 26 2005    Marc Jauvin
    - TIMEOUT implementation fix

0.93  Apr 13 2005    Walery Studennikov
    - updated WHOIS server for AU zone

0.92  Mar 28 2005    Walery Studennikov
    - new fail check patterns

0.91  Mar 04 2005    Walery Studennikov
    - fixed bug (introduced in v0.90) that caused fault of DNS server whois queries
    - new test for DNS servers whois

0.90  Mar 03 2005    Walery Studennikov
    - total rewrite / restructuring of module
    - new exported function: get_whois

0.43  Feb 04 2005    Walery Studennikov
    - new options (exported variables): @SRC_IPS, $CHECK_EXCEED

0.42  Jan 11 2005    Sun Guonian
    - update hostname of CN whois server

0.41  Dec 17 2004    Luis Moreno
    - fix caching when using a particular whois server in whois function

0.40  Dec 09 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - add fail pattern for whois.dns.be

0.39  Oct 29 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - more fixes for Raw.pm that ensures that we do not get confused when
      looking up a domain which has many entries in the whois database
      (for WHOIS.CRSNIC.NET)

0.38  Sep 23 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - fixed recursive whois requests for .ws domains
    - strip patterns for whois.directnic.com
    - fix strip mechanism in case of recusive whois requests

0.37  Aug 11 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - fixed recursive whois requests for .tv domains

0.36  Jul 22 2004    Richard Poole
    - fix for Raw.pm that ensures that we do not get confused when
      looking up a domain which has many entries in the whois database
      (for WHOIS.CRSNIC.NET)

0.35  Jun 29 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - fix of regexp pattern in check_existance

0.34  May 18 2004    Richard Poole
    - new whois server in Data.pm - whois.centralnic.com

0.33  Apr 21 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - new whois server in Data.pm - whois.regtime.net

0.32  Apr 07 2004    IVAN
    - small fix allows the module to work under 5.005

0.31  Mar 19 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - more robust recursive whois queries

0.30  Mar 15 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - added strip rules for whois.dns.be

0.29  Feb 24 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - fixed extra rules which strips the copyright message or disclaimer
    - removed pwhois.PL. "pwhois" is shipped now instead.
    - data structures in Net/Whois/Raw/Data.pm reformatted
    - new strip patterns for whois.crsnic.net


0.28  Feb 20 2004    Alex Kapranoff
    - fixed documentation for pwhois.PL

0.27  Feb 10 2004    Alex Kapranoff
    - patch to check availability of .info and .biz domains

0.26  Jan 09 2004    Walery Studennikov
    - added recursive whois requests for .cc domains
    - fixed recursive whois requests for whois.crsnic.net

0.25  Nov 21 2003    Walery Studennikov
    - fixed multilingual domains whois via whois.melbourneit.com server
    - whois_config function for setting config variables
      (if setting imported variables $OMIT_MSG, $CHECK_FAIL etc.
      doesn't work for some reason, for example because of
      namespace problems in mod_perl scripts)

0.24  Nov 18 2003    Walery Studennikov
    - fixed whois server for .org domains and add new whois servers
      for multilingual domains
    - fixed recursive whois requests for .org domains
    - new fail-check and strip patterns added
    - more verbose error messages
    - added support for third level domains
    - some bugfixes

0.23  Mar 25 2003
    - only exports &whois by default, the other variables are exportable still.
    - incorporated new whois servers ( thanks Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net> )
    - now tests the main tlds
    - added some more regexen to strip out disclaimers and such ( for $OMIT_MSG > 2 ).
    - moved %servers to %Net::Whois::Raw::Data::servers

0.01  Jul 05 2000
    - original version; created by h2xs 1.19