finding whois servers, was .pro whois registry down?

Thu Mar 10 15:35:20 UTC 2016

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:32 AM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> >       _whois._tcp.pro. srv 0 100 43 whois.afilias.net.
>
> A swell idea, but unfortunately the idea of putting SRV records in
> gTLD zones makes heads at ICANN explode.  For RDAP there's a registry
> at IANA but it's not populated yet and it's not obvious that registries
> will be any more diligent about updating it than they are for the WHOIS
> entries in the TLD database.
>
> >If we want machines to follow referrals we have to provide them in
> >appropriate forms.
>
> <domain.whois-servers.net is OK but not updated very often.
>
> I've set up <domain>.ws.sp.am (that's ws for Whois Server) which is
> updated every day from a variety of sources so it's pretty accurate.
> It's had the right server for pro.ws.sp.am all along.
>

Hey, that's fantastic!

Feature request: could you provide a human- and machine-readable one-stop
extract at the top-level page (ws.sp.am) ?

Royce