All our domain name portfolio management software products use a highly customizable scheme for obtaining various data from whois records.  This is done through what we call string tokens that identify key data elements.

Please see “whois server configuration” for more details on this.

There are times when simple string token settings will not work. Here are a couple of advanced string extraction token examples.

[Zone-C]@@Name:

German domain records have multiple blocks of data each with same text tokens. The above will allow you to extract the “Registrar Name” (look for the token “Name:” that follows “[Zone-C]” in the whois records).

Registrant:@@#L#2

Some whois records may always contain the required data at a specific line number. Use the above to pick the text at line 2 after the occurrence of the token “Registrant:” (please note that blank lines are ignored).