Basic Hosting History Example

This sample invokes and displays the results of a DomainTools "Hosting History" via DXL.

For more information see:
https://www.domaintools.com/resources/api-documentation/hosting-history/

Prerequisites

Running

To run this sample execute the sample/basic/basic_hosting_history_example.py script as follows:

python sample/basic/basic_hosting_history_example.py

The output should appear similar to the following:

{
    "response": {
        "domain_name": "domaintools.com",
        "ip_history": [
            {
                "action": "N",
                "action_in_words": "New",
                "actiondate": "2004-05-03",
                "domain": "DOMAINTOOLS.COM",
                "post_ip": "63.247.77.156",
                "pre_ip": null
            },
            {
                "action": "C",
                "action_in_words": "Change",
                "actiondate": "2009-10-24",
                "domain": "DOMAINTOOLS.COM",
                "post_ip": "204.2.145.27",
                "pre_ip": "209.107.205.90"
            },
            {
                "action": "C",
                "action_in_words": "Change",
                "actiondate": "2009-11-03",
                "domain": "DOMAINTOOLS.COM",
                "post_ip": "209.107.205.90",
                "pre_ip": "204.2.145.27"
            },
            .........
            {
                "action": "C",
                "action_in_words": "Change",
                "actiondate": "2015-04-02",
                "domain": "DOMAINTOOLS.COM",
                "post_ip": "199.30.228.112",
                "pre_ip": "8.247.70.160"
            }
        ],
        "nameserver_history": [
            {
                "action": "T",
                "action_in_words": "Transfer",
                "actiondate": "2002-04-14",
                "domain": "DOMAINTOOLS.COM",
                "post_mns": "Xxxnameservers.com",
                "pre_mns": "Interland.net"
            },
            {
                "action": "T",
                "action_in_words": "Transfer",
                "actiondate": "2004-11-25",
                "domain": "DOMAINTOOLS.COM",
                "post_mns": "Host.org",
                "pre_mns": "Xxxnameservers.com"
            },
        ],
        "registrar_history": [
            {
                "date_created": "1998-08-02",
                "date_expires": "2003-08-01",
                "date_lastchecked": "2003-06-28",
                "date_updated": "2002-04-12",
                "domain": "DOMAINTOOLS.COM",
                "registrar": "Tucows",
                "registrartag": "Tucows"
            },
            {
                "date_created": "1998-08-02",
                "date_expires": "2017-08-01",
                "date_lastchecked": "2014-08-15",
                "date_updated": "2014-07-24",
                "domain": "DOMAINTOOLS.COM",
                "registrar": "eNom.com",
                "registrartag": "ENOM, INC."
            }
        ]
    }
}

The received results are displayed.

Details

The majority of the sample code is shown below:

# Create the client
with DxlClient(config) as client:
    # Connect to the fabric
    client.connect()

    logger.info("Connected to DXL fabric.")

    request_topic = "/opendxl-domaintools/service/domaintools/hosting_history"
    req = Request(request_topic)
    MessageUtils.dict_to_json_payload(req, {"query": "domaintools.com"})
    res = client.sync_request(req, timeout=30)
    if res.message_type != Message.MESSAGE_TYPE_ERROR:
        res_dict = MessageUtils.json_payload_to_dict(res)
        print(MessageUtils.dict_to_json(res_dict, pretty_print=True))
    else:
        print("Error invoking service with topic '{}': {} ({})".format(
            request_topic, res.error_message, res.error_code))

After connecting to the DXL fabric, a request message is created with a topic that targets the "hosting history" method of the DomainTools API DXL service.

The next step is to set the payload of the request message. The contents of the payload include the query parameter to report on.

From the DomainTools Hosting History Documentation:

"The Hosting History API provides a list of changes that have occurred in a Domain Name's registrar, IP address, and name servers. IP and name server events include the value before and after the change and indicate the type of action that triggered the event."

The final step is to perform a synchronous request via the DXL fabric. If the response message is not an error its contents are formatted and displayed.