### GR-Hostmaster Plug-in Configuration

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:

1. Contact your GR-Hostmaster Registrar support and ask them to register the IP address of the computer that runs HSPcomplete (your Management Node). Without this registration all requests sent by the GR-Hostmaster plug-in will be rejected by the Registry.
2. In the HSPcomplete Control Center register a separate whois server for GR-Hostmaster and configure it properly:
   1. Select Service Director - Domain Manager - Setup.
   2. Click the Whois Servers tab on the Setup menu.
   3. Click the New Whois Server button.
   4. On the New Whois Server form that appears check the Use http protocol box. Some fields will become unavailable (Port, Command prefix, Command suffix, Drop TLD in request).Enter a new whois server friendly name into the Title field. And into the Whois server you must enter the URL to query, e.g. for GR-HostMaster:

      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.

   5. Click the Save button.

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