[RFCI-Discuss] Missing info in whois practice of TLD owners

[Alan Brown]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

> Indeed, there is info missing from the whois.  But if you whois these
> domains you can see a notice that refers to a webbased dns, where you
> can see the additional information.

This is called "Hoop jumping"

the RFCs are quite clear that a WHOIS server must be provided and ICANN
has been forcing registrars in gTLDs to provide these.

> This seems to be the practice of the TLD owners ( eurid.eu for the eu
> domain and dns.be for the .be )

Which is why those ccTLDs are listed as RFC-ignorant.

> How can we resolve this?  I would like to get our domains out of
> rfc-ignorant list but don't know how.

Get the registrars to implement WORKING, RFC-compliant WHOIS servers.