I would _love_ it for ccTLDs, but unfortunately nic.* is not always the registry's website. nic.ru is a good example of that. Let alone registries that do not even know what whois is! Taking IANA as a leading source is what we do as far as the information exists, and maybe from that side a 'wrapper' like $tld.whois.iana.org could be provided. I know there is such functionality around but I've never found one that is 100% free of errors. (Okay, maybe such feature on IANA level wouldn't be either, but still...) Siemen On 07/02/16 14:03, Mark Elkins wrote:
It would be great if "old" gTLD's did the same thing.... and even ccTLD's for that matter.
On 07/02/2016 13:33, Michele Neylon - Blacknight wrote:
Re: whois for new gTLDs - whois.nic.$tld will work no matter what is in the IANA DB - they might be using redirects / pointers of some kind, but I haven’t seen any that don’t work - and they’re contractually obliged to use that format.
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