[dns-operations] Official WHOIS redirector for TLDs

[Florian Weimer]

* Rubens Kuhl:

> Em 19/03/2014, à(s) 14:30:000, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> escreveu:
>
>> Is there are offical, documented WHOIS redirector for TLDs with some
>> long-term interface stability.  WHOIS.IANA.ORG might do the job, but I
>> couldn't find official documentation pointing to it.
>
> Do you mean WebWHOIS ?

No, the good old port 43 protocol.

> All new gTLDs are required to have whois.nic.<TLD> for port 43
> services, and it's usual for that URL to also have WebWHOIS. The
> tricky part is knowing who is implementing http://whois.nic.<TLD>
> and who is implementing https://whois.nic.<TLD>.

You also need to know what is a new TLD.