Re: This TLD has no whois server.

[Bhasker C V <bhasker@unixindia.com>]

same is the case with .cv domains
I think some of the domains just do not have a whois server
but as-long-as the entries for NS is in the root servers
the network communication still works.


On Sat, 2 May 2009, Thomas Hochstein wrote:

> 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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Bhasker C V
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