re: whois
Andy, I don't want to rain on anyone's parade... but most whois access is now blocked. There is no way to automatically look that data up. Manually you need to enter some graphic code, or otherwise interact with the terminal. It's really killed some of the stuff I've been doing for years to maintain my domain lists -- for my own domain names, not even quasi-ethical harvesting of other data.
One thing that might be possible, is to go to the front page of a website, and look for "mailto" links. If the mailto: is to something on that domain, then if the name is "contact", "support", "Info", "webmaster", etc (a list of defined names) then automatically insert it. IF the name is something unknown at that domain like
jim@domain.com then insert that into a "potential_contact" field.
You might have to do a 1-page deep search looking for email addresses that are on a contact or other similar page.
The admin area could then present the webmaster with a list of "potential_contacts" on a single line: "Title", "URL", "Potential_Contact", with URL clickable to view the site.
You could go through and check/eyeball the potentials, and check the box in front of the line to update the record, moving "potential_contact" to "contact".
Two check boxes [update contact] and [delete potential_contact] would allow you to quickly manage the information.
Easily 50 on a page.
Sure, with 20,000 links, it's a chore, but it's better than manually visiting each site, and trying to find the information -- at least this script will potentially pick up a large portion of good contact emails, leaving the ones it could not guess, or free-sites with another free-site email addres as needing intervention.
Just some thoughts....]
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