On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 05:02:05AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > I hope 2022 is already up to a good start over there. I am doing > some research and I noticed certain TLDs such as .art and .eth are > not resolving properly from the whois command, are such domains on > the map to be supported? > > They are supported, but the TLD list needs updating. Would you like > to contribut such a patch? whois/tld_serv_list contains all the TLD > mappings. >
Instead of maintaining a list of WHOIS servers which can easily get outdated, one could maybe whois query whois.iana.org to know where to go next: ====================================================================================== ❯ nc whois.iana.org 43 <<<foo.art % IANA WHOIS server % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org % This query returned 1 object refer: whois.nic.art domain: ART organisation: UK Creative Ideas Limited address: 12 Mount Havelock address: Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2QG address: United Kingdom contact: administrative name: Member, Strategic Planning Board organisation: UK Creative Ideas Ltd address: 111 Buckingham Palace Road address: London SW1W 0SR address: United Kingdom phone: +1-310-400-4184 e-mail: k...@art.art contact: technical name: CTO organisation: CentralNic address: Saddlers House 4th Floor 44 Gutter Lane address: London EC2V 6BR address: United Kingdom phone: +44 20 33 88 0600 fax-no: +44 20 33 88 0601 e-mail: tld....@centralnic.com nserver: A.NIC.ART 194.169.218.49 2001:67c:13cc:0:0:0:1:49 nserver: B.NIC.ART 185.24.64.49 2a04:2b00:13cc:0:0:0:1:49 nserver: C.NIC.ART 212.18.248.49 2a04:2b00:13ee:0:0:0:0:49 nserver: D.NIC.ART 212.18.249.49 2a04:2b00:13ff:0:0:0:0:49 ds-rdata: 29485 8 2 BF041A7EC6CA857F5D85151C66F561DEB9C863B98E05670C345C9CF9ED199AEE whois: whois.nic.art status: ACTIVE remarks: Registration information: http://art.art/ created: 2016-06-09 changed: 2021-09-23 source: IANA ❯ nc whois.nic.art 43 <<<foo.art The queried object does not exist: DOMAIN NOT FOUND ====================================================================================== HTH -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 "Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?" (Albert Camus)
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