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Re: FW: [tld-admin-poc] Fwd: Re: .pro whois registry down?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Royce Williams)
Wed Mar 9 20:23:00 2016
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From: Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:20:24 -0900
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
>
> Additionally 'whois' is free form text. Whois doesn't include a
> AI to workout what this free form text means so, no, there isn't a
> actual referral for a whois application to use.
I'm not affiliated, but there are a couple of companies that normalize
whois data. It's a whackamole game, but it sucks less than trying to
do it yourself.
> Additionally we should be publishing where the whois server for the
> tld is in the DNS. whois applications could be looking for this
> then falling back to other methods.
>
> e.g.
>
> _whois._tcp.pro. srv 0 100 43 whois.afilias.net.
>
> If we want machines to follow referrals we have to provide them in
> appropriate forms.
That's a great idea.
Royce
