In article <56B740BA.6070208@posix.co.za> you write:
It would be great if "old" gTLD's did the same thing.... and even ccTLD's for that matter.
We went through this in great length in WEIRDS, and I'd encourage you to review the mailing list archive. We considered a bunch of in-band signals such as reserved names and SRV records, but we decided that we couldn't tell zone operators, particularly ccTLD zone operators, what to put in their zone files. I'm not thrilled with what we came up with, but having written an IP address RDAP client I'm using in small scale production, I can report that it works fine and the coding is not difficult. I'd be happy if the gTLDs just kept the info in the IANA database up to date. I'm looking at you, Verisign. R's, John PS: For all of your gTLD WHOIS location needs, check out <tld>.ws.sp.am. Now with DNSSEC!