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[Tim Groeneveld <tim AT timg.ws>]

Just as a side note, the Apple whois client actually checks
DNS to find out what the whois server when it's not hard coded in the client.

        /*
         * If no host or country is specified determine the top level domain
         * from the query.  If the TLD is a number, query ARIN.  Otherwise, 
use 
         * TLD.whois-server.net.  If the domain does not contain '.', fall
         * back to NICHOST.
         */
        if (host == NULL && country == NULL) {
                use_qnichost = 1;
                host = NICHOST;
                if (!(flags & WHOIS_QUICK))
                        flags |= WHOIS_RECURSE;
        }
        while (argc-- > 0) {
                if (country != NULL) {
                        s_asprintf(&qnichost, "%s%s", country, QNICHOST_TAIL);
                        whois(*argv, qnichost, flags);
                } else if (use_qnichost)
                        if ((qnichost = choose_server(*argv)) != NULL)
                                whois(*argv, qnichost, flags);
                if (qnichost == NULL)
                        whois(*argv, host, flags);
                free(qnichost);
                qnichost = NULL;
                argv++;
        }
        exit(0);


http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/adv_cmds/adv_cmds-149/whois/whois.c

Should we consider adding zones for TLDs under QNICHOST_TAIL 
(".whois-servers.net")

ie, add a zone for fur.whois-servers.net so that the whois client
will "magically" work for opennic tlds?

It could be considered spoofing, I suppose, but it's not necessarily bad.


 ---- On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:31:47 +1100 Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> 
wrote ---- 
 > It's certainly worth discussing...  The wiki page I linked to has been 
 > posted for several years, but I don't recall much discussion about it 
 > before.  And that was part of the reason behind my original email, but I 
 > forgot to ask about it -- What fields SHOULD we be displaying?  What 
 > fields should never be shown?  The info in there now is less than what 
 > is required and publically displayed by ICANN, but that doesn't mean it 
 > *should* be displayed.  Also are there any fields missing that might be 
 > useful?
 > 
 > 
 > On 11/23/2015 03:50 PM, anonymiss wrote:
 > > 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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