On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Bill Woodcock <wo...@pch.net> wrote: > >> On Jan 7, 2015, at 10:38 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is there a list of NIC (and other popular whois server) features (what >> can be searched on) and what data they provide (and what title they >> give it)? > > Heh, heh, heh. There are just about as many whois output formats as there > are back-end data-stores. Note that I say “data-stores” rather than > databases. Some of them aren’t. So when you say “title” I assume you’re > referring to half of a key-value pair. A concept some large whois sources > don’t have. >
Yes, I'm referring to mapping between key names. > 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?