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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

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AdamWill opened this issue Sep 11, 2024 · 1 comment

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AdamWill commented Sep 11, 2024

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?

AdamWill added a commit to AdamWill/whois that referenced this issue Sep 11, 2024
Separate from rfc1036#176 as this
one is a bit less clear-cut. The IANA info still lists
whois.afilias-srs.net . However, as explained in rfc1036#176, Afilias
was bought in 2020 and the successor organization is named
Identity Digital; they have already let one Afilias domain which
hosted a whois server lapse (see rfc1036#177) so the chances of this
happening again seem non-zero, and it may be wise to change this.

whois.nic.pr , following the pretty common convention that a lot
of other TLDs use, is set up and points to the same Identity
Digital catch-all server that whois.afilias-srs.net currently
points to, so it seems like a sensible choice (and one that the
maintainer of the .pr TLD cannot lose control over).

Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <[email protected]>
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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.

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