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
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