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 http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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