>> So, you’re not running into a poorly-documented mystery, you’ve run afoul of >> one of the rotten armpits of the shub-Internet. >> > So there's no consensus between NICs for the information they should > have in whois and what search mechanisms they should provide? I guess > what you're saying is that whois is just a protocol definition and > nothing else?
Correct. It gets you a blob of text. Sometimes, a blob is just a blob. Other
times, it contains what _appear_ to be key-value pairs, but are instead
loosely-formatted text. Other times, it contains textually-represented
key-value pairs that are programmatically generated from an actual database,
and can thus be re-imported into another database. Depends what’s on the back
end.
-Bill
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