Richard
> Is it technically possible for the registrar details in whois (for a
> .com domain) be out of date, or is the whois the canonical source of the
> info? If it is possible, how would I go about finding out who's really
> in control? Does a registrar have an interface for that?
.com is a thin registry, which means that registrars hold the registrant data
and publish the WHOIS, not the registry. There have been problems with many
registrars over the years not publishing correct data or publishing data for
domains that they are no longer the registrar for but ICANN has put a lot of
effort into compliance and that is getting much better.
The WHOIS protocol does normally return whatever is the canonical data stored
by the actual registrar and so if that’s not telling you what you want then you
won’t get any better information from the registrar.
When you conduct a WHOIS for a .com it will include a block like this at the
top:
Domain Name: <something>.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 146
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
which tells you the registrar’s WHOIS. You can query that directly with:
whois -h <whois server> <domain name>
but it’s unlikely to tell you anything different.
Send me the domain off-list and I might be able to help.
Jay
>
> Unfortunately I'm not sure how reliable my client's own records are on
> this ...
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
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