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Home :: ICANN 26 Mar 2014 A little whois help ICANN For a long time, the easiest way to look up the WHOIS information for a domain has been to use whois-servers.net, which has kept a list of a lot of WHOIS servers that you can look up in the DNS. To look up something in, say blah.tld you point your WHOIS program at blah.whois-servers.net. Many open source WHOIS clients will do that automatically, or with a flag. But with all the new TLDs added every week, they're falling behind. Since I was supposed to be doing something else, I wrote some scripts that scrape the WHOIS server information every morning from the list at IANA. then combines it with some other server info I've figured out by hand, and publishes it as blah.ws.sp.am. I expect that whois-server.net will eventually catch up, but I plan to keep ws.sp.am around indefinitely. posted at: 00:08 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments posted at: 00:08 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments comments...        (Jump to the end to add your own comment) Errata I follow your reasoning. Very good. But I think for clarity that you meant tld.ws.sp.am rather than blah.ws.sp.am (by Terry Bowden 07 Aug 2014 21:47) Add your comment... Note: all comments require an email address to send a confirmation to verify that it was posted by a person and not a spambot. The comment won't be visible until you click the link in the confirmation. Unless you check the box below, which almost nobody does, your email won't be displayed, and I won't use it for other purposes.   Name: Email: you@wherever (required, for confirmation) Title: (optional) Comments: Show my Email address Save my Name and Email for next time

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