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Intelligent WHOIS client
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whois2.afilias-grs.net (the server for two TLDs) no longer exists, the domain is owned by some kinda sketchy parking service #177

Open AdamWill opened 1 month ago

AdamWill commented 1 month ago

whois2.afilias-grs.net is listed as the server for .vc and .lc . There is no working whois server at that address as I type this. The afilias-grs.net domain seems to have lapsed at some point. It is no longer owned by Identity Digital, the successor organization to Afilias, but by some kinda sketchy-seeming domain parking/expired-domain-swooping operation named dropcatch/parklogic , as best as I can tell (whois for afilias-grs.net lists DropCatch.com as the owner, addresses on afilias-grs.net seem to redirect to parklogic.com ).

I would guess the most appropriate server name now is likely whois.identitydigital.services (as whois.nic.vc and whois.nic.lc don't seem to be set up), but it would probably be good to clarify this with the folks who look after the vc and lc TLDs?

mnordhoff commented 1 month ago

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/vc.html currently says .vc uses whois.identitydigital.services.

On the other hand, https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/lc.html lists no whois server for .lc.