Re: Supported TLDs

Ashish SHUKLA <[email protected]> Sun, 9 Jan 2022 21:06:56 +0000
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.inetutils.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 05:02:05AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    I hope 2022 is already up to a good start over there. I am doing
>    some research and I noticed certain TLDs such as .art and .eth are
>    not resolving properly from the whois command, are such domains on
>    the map to be supported?
> 
> They are supported, but the TLD list needs updating.  Would you like
> to contribut such a patch?  whois/tld_serv_list contains all the TLD
> mappings.
> 

Instead of maintaining a list of WHOIS servers which can easily get outdated, one could maybe whois query whois.iana.org to know where to go next:

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❯ nc whois.iana.org 43 <<<foo.art
% IANA WHOIS server
% for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org
% This query returned 1 object

refer:        whois.nic.art

domain:       ART

organisation: UK Creative Ideas Limited
address:      12 Mount Havelock
address:      Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2QG
address:      United Kingdom

contact:      administrative
name:         Member, Strategic Planning Board
organisation: UK Creative Ideas Ltd
address:      111 Buckingham Palace Road
address:      London SW1W 0SR
address:      United Kingdom
phone:        +1-310-400-4184
e-mail:       [email protected]

contact:      technical
name:         CTO
organisation: CentralNic
address:      Saddlers House 4th Floor 44 Gutter Lane
address:      London EC2V 6BR
address:      United Kingdom
phone:        +44 20 33 88 0600
fax-no:       +44 20 33 88 0601
e-mail:       [email protected]

nserver:      A.NIC.ART 194.169.218.49 2001:67c:13cc:0:0:0:1:49
nserver:      B.NIC.ART 185.24.64.49 2a04:2b00:13cc:0:0:0:1:49
nserver:      C.NIC.ART 212.18.248.49 2a04:2b00:13ee:0:0:0:0:49
nserver:      D.NIC.ART 212.18.249.49 2a04:2b00:13ff:0:0:0:0:49
ds-rdata:     29485 8 2 BF041A7EC6CA857F5D85151C66F561DEB9C863B98E05670C345C9CF9ED199AEE

whois:        whois.nic.art

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: http://art.art/

created:      2016-06-09
changed:      2021-09-23
source:       IANA

❯ nc whois.nic.art 43 <<<foo.art
The queried object does not exist: DOMAIN NOT FOUND
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HTH
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