It appears that Bill Cole via mailop <[email protected]> said: >RDAP has bootstrapping facilities so if a domain is under a gTLD or >*some* ccTLDs you don't need to guess.
Right, although .MY isn't listed. >> [tld].whois-server.net points to the corresponding TLD registry whois Um, no, that's for sale. You're probably thinking of Rodney Joffe's whois-servers.net but he hasn't been updating it recently. I have whois.services.net which a script updates every night and is about as good as you'll get. >> server. But whois output seems to be unstructured text and not at all >> suitable for machine parsing. > >Right. > >The situation should be getting better over time, but ccTLD registries >are resistant to community pressure. I find about half of the ccTLDs use the common format. There are scripts that try to parse the other ones (I've written a few) but they're hit and miss. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
