[dns-operations] fun with .gov

[Florian Weimer]

* Jacco Tunnissen:

> My idea is that taking .gov whois offline was ordered by DHS to hide
> sensitive information from prying eyes.

It's been like this for a while.  There used to be web-based WHOIS,
but I had the impression that it was intended to require
authentication, and it provided data to the general public because of
a state management bug only (you had to visit pages in a certain order
to get the data, IIRC).

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