The GR-Hostmaster plug-in allows registering domain names in the the Greece country code Top Level Domain .gr. The .gr registry is supervised by the Department for the Administration of Domain Names (GR-Hostmaster) of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) under the Foundation of Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH), the Greek national research centre.
The GR Hostmaster incorporates many .gr registrars officially accredited by the Greek National Telecommunications & Posts Commission. The GR-Hostmaster acts also as the accredited .gr registrar. You can set up the reseller account with any of .gr registrars accredited.
Note: Before you start configuring the GR-Hostmaster plug-in, please know out the prefix assigned to the selected registrar on accreditation - together with the other information, you will need this prefix to configure the GR-Hostmaster plug-in.
To select a registrar, please visit the GR-Hostmaster website and select the Accredited registrars list.
How to configure whois search via HTTP for the GR-Hostmaster plug-in
To set up the whois search for GR-Hostmaster plug-in, you need to:
http://grwhois.ics.forth.gr:800/plainwhois/plainWhois?domainName='
A domain name will be added to the query automatically.
Set the option button to Use 'domain not found' pattern. Into the field next to this option enter the usual pattern for a whois server, e.g. for GR-HostMaster it will be Domain does not exist.