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Re: .pro whois registry down?


From: Doug Barton <dougb () dougbarton us>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 18:34:13 -0800

On 03/09/2016 04:54 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
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.

Brilliant, wish I'd thought of it :)

Doug


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