Revision history for Perl extension Net::Domain::ExpireDate. 0.01 2002-Oct-02 - original version; created by h2xs 1.21 0.03 2003-Jan-13 - fixed parsing of whois results of whois.bulkregister.com 0.04 2003-Feb-10 - fixed parsing of whois results of whois.networksolutions.com 0.06 2003-Feb-14 - documendation update: added functions reference 0.07 2003-Feb-17 - fixed parsing of whois results of whois.ripn.net 0.09 2003-Mar-05 - fixed decode_date(), now exporting decode_date 0.10 2003-Mar-07 - fixed parsing of data from whois.ripn.net (for .RU domains) 0.11 2003-Apr-24 - fixed parsing of data from whois.ripn.net (for .RU domains) 0.12 2003-May-11 - adopted to new version Net::Whois::Raw (explicitly importing $OMIT_MSG $CHECK_FAIL) 0.13 2003-May-11 - more fixes regarding new Net::Whois::Raw 0.14 2003-May-14 - more fixes regarding new Net::Whois::Raw (they have changed the interface!) 0.15 2003-Jul-16 - not exporting decode_date by default 0.16 2003-Jul-16 - guessing expiration date of .RU and .SU domains - howmany_days_passed function removed 0.17 2003-Aug-11 - fixed parsing of data from itsyourdomain.com 0.20 2003-Aug-11 - major change for .com .net .org domains: extract expiration date from whois.crsnic.net and whois.publicinterestregistry.net rather than from servers of specific registrar. If you want old behaviour: use Net::Domain::ExpireDate qw( $USE_REGISTRAR_SERVERS ); $USE_REGISTRAR_SERVERS = 1; 0.21 2003-Aug-25 - new patterns for whois.enom.com by "Ahmed Akef" 0.22 2003-Nov-03 - support of new TLDs: .biz, .info and .us 0.23 2003-Nov-10 - more date recognition templates for .biz domains 0.25 2004-Mar-25 - new patterns for .co.uk domains by Kyrian 0.26 2004-Aug-17 - export $USE_REGISTRAR_SERVERS; new magic numbers for $USE_REGISTRAR_SERVERS 0.30 2004-Dec-09 - added initial support of obtaining domain creation dates; - new exported functions: domain_dates domdates_int 0.31 2005-Feb-26 - more creation date patterns; - new exported function: credate_fmt 0.32 2005-Feb-26 - more creation date patterns; 0.33 2005-Mar-03 - more creation and expiration date patterns; 0.34 2005-Apr-05 - improved obtaining expiration date of .ru domains 0.35 2005-Apr-13 - fixed bug with whois queries to .com .net .org registries 0.36 2005-Sep-30 - new rule to match .fi domains by Tomi Rekonen - fixed tests at test.pl 0.37 2006-Mar-20 - modify patterns for whois.cira.ca 0.38 2006-Jul-29 - ducumentation fixes 0.39 2006-Oct-09 - added support for .JP domains - fixed tests 0.40 2006-Nov-18 - new module config variables: $CACHE_TIME and $CACHE_DIR, this config passes to Net::Whois::Raw 0.41 2007-May-16 - patch for understanding .biz and .cn by Yulia Shtyrjakova 0.42 2007-Aug-15 - updated POD documentstion (subroutines descriptions) 0.80 2007-Sep-06 - added support for cretion dates for *.(com|net|org|pp).ru domains - don't use Exporter anymore; revised export list (can cause some incompatibilities, so version number bumped) - user Test::More for tests; tests revised