I believe this question has to be answered by ICANN, unfortunately.
In general, what a service provider for a subdomain has to do is only
regulated by the agreement between that subdomain and his immediate
superior;
the IETF cannot regulate the root's arrangements with its subdomains.
(we did try with "root server requirements" to make some recommendations on
how to run the root - but that's all they are - recommendations....)
Harald
--On torsdag, november 08, 2001 14:45:12 -0800 Martin Djernaes
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> Hi,
>
> I have been looking in the RFCs, but I doesn't seem to be able to find
> an exact answer. So I'll try drop the question in here "Must a ccTld
> registrar (like dk-hostmaster.dk) supply a whois service?".
>
> The reason I ask, is that whois.dk-hostmaster.dk have been taken our of
> service, and they only offer a web interface to the database. This
> removes all simple querying of any .dk domain.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin Djernaes
>
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