Re: Supported TLDs

[Chris Reveles]

Hello everyone,

Thank you very much for your attention to this matter, I wish I replied earlier, but we are busier than normal over here.

My profile may seem fairly technical, but I am more on the management, legal and counseling side, in case the offer on maintaining the project was addressed to me. The reason why I contacted you, is because I consider WHOIS will take a lot of relevance with the increasing activity around domain names(to consider, the massive adoption of domain names by individuals as online identities), as Alfred suggests, taking the reference from IANA may be the best path to keep the tool up-to-date.

I wish you success in your projects and be sure you can count with an extra pair of eyes and hands here.

Saludos desde México.

cR

On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 9:34 PM Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> 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   outdated, one could maybe whois query whois.iana.org to know where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:

A script that could do that would be useful, would you like to give it
a try?  Would there be any issues with terms of service or such?

I doubt we would want to run it very often, but just before release
would make sense.