On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 11:44 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 15:11 +0200, Simon Kainz wrote:
> 
> > As far as i know, there is no such thing as a whois entry, for e.g.
> > www.fontmatrix.net, only for fontmatrix.net. Question now is: Should I
> > just go up the "domain tree" (in case i have more subdomains) until i
> > find a domain entry which actually returns an whois entry, and if so,
> > report if there are hints that it might be for sale?
> 
> There could be whois entries for subdomains since whois supports
> referrals like DNS does. I think you need to do walk the subdomain tree
> but ignore TLDs using the publicsuffix.org data via the
> libdomain-publicsuffix-perl package.
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/libdomain-publicsuffix-perl

A better option would be to have the whois tld list exposed in the whois
package and use that I think.

http://sources.debian.net/src/whois/5.1.4/tld_serv_list

-- 
bye,
pabs

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