whoises

[Steve Watt]

[ So what *is* the plural of whois? ]

Anyhow, I was snooping at VRx' web site to see if there was a fresher version
of the root zone file, and I happened across the new, improved whois. Neat.

But... whohosts.txt doesn't have an entry for some of the new gTLDs, like
.web? Am I missing something, or did someone else?

On a semi-related note, I did a little snooping in the alternate gTLD universe,
and it seems like there are a whole bunch of lame delegations now. At least
the .fam and .per ones are definitely lame.

Ah well, I guess the whole idea is dying. Pity.
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[Richard J. Sexton]

In article <FozCn...@Watt.COM>, Steve Watt <st...@Watt.COM> wrote:
>[ So what *is* the plural of whois? ]
>
>Anyhow, I was snooping at VRx' web site to see if there was a fresher version
>of the root zone file, and I happened across the new, improved whois. Neat.
>
>But... whohosts.txt doesn't have an entry for some of the new gTLDs, like
>.web? Am I missing something, or did someone else?

Ambler doesn't have port 43 whois, he does the web based one insetad.
Bug cam...@iodesign.com.

>On a semi-related note, I did a little snooping in the alternate gTLD universe,
>and it seems like there are a whole bunch of lame delegations now. At least
>the .fam and .per ones are definitely lame.

.PER has suspended operations - but not quit. Jay Fenello didn't
feel he could continue with the ICANN cards stacked against
him be he has not given up, just suspened operations.

.Fam is Gary M ovr and lanmines; he got coopted by CORE but
hasn't completey given up either. He's with us in spirit :-)

>Ah well, I guess the whole idea is dying. Pity.

Oh no, far from it.

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[Jim Kingdon]

> On a semi-related note, I did a little snooping in the alternate
> gTLD universe, and it seems like there are a whole bunch of lame

> delegations now. At least . the .fam and .per ones are definitely
> lame.

.fam is commented out of http://www.tinc-org.com/db.root.tinc.txt and
.per isn't there at all.

Policing lame delegations does strike me as a useful function for a
registry or DNS root to do (within their domain in the former case).