Re: FW: [tld-admin-poc] Fwd: Re: .pro whois registry down?

2016-03-10 Thread Tony Finch
Mark Andrews 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. Yes, the whois data format is bullshit, but there are only a few simple referral patterns

Re: FW: [tld-admin-poc] Fwd: Re: .pro whois registry down?

2016-03-09 Thread Royce Williams
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Mark Andrews 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 t

Re: FW: [tld-admin-poc] Fwd: Re: .pro whois registry down?

2016-03-09 Thread Mark Andrews
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. Additionally we should be publishing where the whois server for the tld is in the DNS. whois applications could be l

Re: FW: [tld-admin-poc] Fwd: Re: .pro whois registry down?

2016-03-09 Thread Doug Barton
Joseph, Thanks for the update. However the current state of things is not good ... My Ubuntu host tries to use whois.dotproregistry.net, which has no address records. FreeBSD by default uses pro.whois-servers.net, which resolves to whois.registrypro.pro (which has an A record), but never retu