Re: This TLD has no whois server.

[Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net>]

jidanni@jidanni.org schrieb:

> I wanted to see the whois entry for qeqertarsuaq.gl
> $ whois qeqertarsuaq.gl
> This TLD has no whois server.

Perhaps this TLD has no whois server?

See <http://www.issociate.de/domain_eng_gl_Greenland.php>:
| Whois Server
| None listed.

> But http://whois.domaintools.com/qeqertarsuaq.gl says
>   Whois Server: whois.ripe.net

That may be plain wrong.

> So why didn't we see something like
> $ whois last.fm
> This TLD has no whois server, but you can access the whois database at
> http://www.dot.fm/whois.html

Because there is no such possibility to query a web database?

gwhois can query the whois web database for .fm; it tries to query a
web database at search.greennet.gl for .gl, but fails to do so.

> Probably because
> $ whois -h whois.ripe.net qeqertarsuaq.gl
> %ERROR:101: no entries found

Yes. That means that domaintools.com is wrong.

> All weird.
> Anyways, what should
> $ whois qeqertarsuaq.gl
> really say?

Nothing, if there is no whois server for .gl.

-thh
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