Hi, The *.whois.rfc-ignorant.org hostnames mentioned by [EMAIL PROTECTED] are not whois servers. The domain whois.rfc-ignorant.org is used as a blacklist used to identify those domains that do not provide full and correct whois information. Two of the country code top level domains you mention have no whois server and the thrid provides limited information hence their inclusion on the list. For example uk.whois.rfc-ignorant.org exists (i.e. resolves to an IP address) because the whois information for *.uk domains provides no contact details.
By contract the domain com.whois.rfc-ignorant.org does not exist (i.e. is not blacklisted) as the whois server is capable of providing full information. However certain domains within .com that have invalid or missing information are listed, for example networksolutions.com.whois.rfc-ignorant.org due to them using an invalid email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for the admin contact. To answer your original question a bit less cryptically: For .co.uk (and .org.uk, net.uk, ltd.uk and plc.uk) domains the whois server you need to query is whois.nic.uk which gives you some basic information such as registrant and nameservers. Nominet who run it plan to include more information including registrant contact details in the future. For .tv domains there is no whois server, you can only get domain registration details from the http://www.tv/ website which includes contact information. For .co domains there is no whois server but you can look up domains on https://www.nic.co/ to see who has registered them. This site is in Spanish and provides very little information from lookups. HTH, Mark. On 2001-11-14 (Wednesday) at 00:35:52 -0500, Mike Allen wrote: > I tried those, but I get an error. Connection refused!!! > > An Error Has Occured: Connection refused tv.whois.rfc-ignorant.org > > Did I understand it wrong? I understood you as saying: > tv.whois.rfc-ignorant.org > > HELP!! > Mike >
