On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:
On Jan 7, 2015, at 10:38 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a list of NIC (and other popular whois server) features (what can be searched on) and what data they provide (and what title they give it)?
Heh, heh, heh. There are just about as many whois output formats as there are back-end data-stores. Note that I say “data-stores” rather than databases. Some of them aren’t. So when you say “title” I assume you’re referring to half of a key-value pair. A concept some large whois sources don’t have.
Yes, I'm referring to mapping between key names.
So, you’re not running into a poorly-documented mystery, you’ve run afoul of one of the rotten armpits of the shub-Internet.
So there's no consensus between NICs for the information they should have in whois and what search mechanisms they should provide? I guess what you're saying is that whois is just a protocol definition and nothing else?