[dns-operations] Denying Whois DB by GeoIP

[Daniel Griggs]

Hi Kaio,

First off, we aren't specifically blocking Brazil. So sorry that you're seeing that.

What we do, have is rate limiting to prevent abuse, or at least to discourage abuse. We have two different levels of enforcement to try and prevent contact detail harvesting from individuals and botnets. The first is a per IP address rate limit, the second is per country rate limiting (using geo-ip lookups). Its just unfortunate that recently our whois service has been hit pretty hard with queries originating from Brazil.

There is a process which you can follow to get an exemption, so feel free to contact me offlist to organise that.

--
Daniel Griggs
daniel at nzrs.net.nz





> On 9/06/2017, at 9:18 AM, Kaio Rafael <kaiorafael at dcc.ufam.edu.br> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have been investigating Fast-Flux service for a while, and sometimes I need to retrieve WHOIS data from different TLDs.
> 
> Today, I was looking for .CO.NZ <http://co.nz/> data, however every query I sent, I got permission denied. I am not sure if this block is based on my IP current geolocation (Brazil), but when I ask from different locations such as US and UK, I can have this data.
> 
> I tried different sources in Brazil, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, for instance.
> 
> Is there any RFC or other documentation that says that a TLD (whois in this case) can deny requests based on IP Geolocation?
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Kaio Rafael,
> PhD student.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kaio Rafael,
> http://twitter.com/kaiux <http://twitter.com/kaiux>
> 
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