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Jeff Taylor:
> We've had a few attempts at a whois service over the years, but with the
> recent move to storing a large number of domains in a central location,
> I thought I would try setting up a catch-all service for us.  I
> temporarily set up a service on the API server to test the new code. 
> Eventually I will move it to whois.opennic.glue.
> 
> # whois -h ipv4.api.opennicproject.org <domain>
> 
> The output is based on http://wiki.opennicproject.org/WHOIS_Policy
> however is does not match exactly.  This service currently works with
> domains from dyn/free/fur/geek/indy/oss/parody/pirate.  If anyone
> running one of the other TLDs has a whois service in place, I can add an
> entry to do lookups there as well.  The same applies for TLDs that we
> are peering with.  This will also perform lookups on ICANN domains.  I
> found a source that tries to maintain a current list of whois servers
> for each TLD, however if you do happen to find a TLD that doesn't
> resolve, let me know and I'll see if I can find another source for them.
> 
> We've seen one problem with this -- the whois command does not work with
> IPv6 (thus forcing the ipv4 address above).  The solution is simple, the
> final whois.opennic.glue address will only have an IPv4 address.
> 
> Please let me know if you run into any other issues with this service. 
> Once everything appears to be working correctly, I'll move the code to
> one of the NS0 servers.
> 
>
Hi,

isn't this a bit too open in details? I know private whois is in most
cases a very weird, legal thing, but this new whos... well people using
this API can see the email address directly. that's not a bad thing
since this is pretty universal, but wouldn't it be better to also offer
some kind of protection for email addresses and/or other personal
details if they should ever become necessary?

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