On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Mark Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > Additionally 'whois' is free form text. Whois doesn't include a > AI to workout what this free form text means so, no, there isn't a > actual referral for a whois application to use.
I'm not affiliated, but there are a couple of companies that normalize whois data. It's a whackamole game, but it sucks less than trying to do it yourself. > Additionally we should be publishing where the whois server for the > tld is in the DNS. whois applications could be looking for this > then falling back to other methods. > > e.g. > > _whois._tcp.pro. srv 0 100 43 whois.afilias.net. > > If we want machines to follow referrals we have to provide them in > appropriate forms. That's a great idea. Royce
