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Re: whois server features
From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 14:47:47 -0500
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:
On Jan 7, 2015, at 10:38 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com> wrote: Is there a list of NIC (and other popular whois server) features (what can be searched on) and what data they provide (and what title they give it)?Heh, heh, heh. There are just about as many whois output formats as there are back-end data-stores. Note that I say “data-stores” rather than databases. Some of them aren’t. So when you say “title” I assume you’re referring to half of a key-value pair. A concept some large whois sources don’t have.
Yes, I'm referring to mapping between key names.
So, you’re not running into a poorly-documented mystery, you’ve run afoul of one of the rotten armpits of the shub-Internet.
So there's no consensus between NICs for the information they should have in whois and what search mechanisms they should provide? I guess what you're saying is that whois is just a protocol definition and nothing else?
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- Fwd: whois server features shawn wilson (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features Bill Woodcock (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features shawn wilson (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features Rubens Kuhl (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features Bill Woodcock (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features shawn wilson (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features Rubens Kuhl (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features anthony kasza (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features shawn wilson (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features David Conrad (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features George Michaelson (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features shawn wilson (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features Bill Woodcock (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features Nick Hilliard (Jan 07)
- Re: whois server features joel jaeggli (Jan 07)