[dns-operations] Bulk whois/zone file access

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 12:13:48AM -0400,
 John R Levine <johnl at taugh.com> wrote 
 a message of 49 lines which said:

> ICANN has no control over ccTLDs, so it's entirely up to them if
> they distribute zone files.  The .US file is available via FTP with
> an ICANN style application, the .SE and .NU files from a public web
> server, and the rest not at all unless they happen to leave a name
> server open for AXFR.

For .fr, the list of domain names (not exactly the same as the zone
file but close) is available online:

wget https://www.afnic.fr/data/opendata/$(date  --date='1 month ago' +"%Y%m")_OPENDATA_A-NomsDeDomaineEnPointFr.zip