[RFCI-Discuss] Bug in domain parser

[Derek J. Balling]

On Oct 21, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Simon Arlott wrote:
> Based on how it's delegated in DNS, xn--hgbk6aj7f53bba is the
> domain, not xn--mgbh0fb.xn--hgbk6aj7f53bba.

No, xn--hgbk6aj7f53bba is the "TLD".  It's a TLD without a WHOIS  
server listed at whois.iana.org (if you notice, whois.iana.org is the  
WHOIS server for all the TLDs).

> xn--hgbk6aj7f53bba has a whois record at whois.iana.org, aside
> from the contacts having no name it looks valid to me.

No, it's missing a pointer to "what the proper WHOIS server is for  
domains within that TLD".

In theory, I could accept that xn--hgbk6aj7f53bba should be listed in  
the WHOIS zone as not having a valid WHOIS server.... although I'm not  
at all sure, at the moment, that the zone-file generator would have  
any idea that it should treat that "differently" in terms of giving it  
a "TLD wide" result code instead of a "domain-specific" result code.

Cheers,
D

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