Re: [weirds] Query Parameters

[Steve Sheng <[e-mail]>]

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From: "Hollenbeck, Scott" <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 07:23:35 -0700
To: Francisco Arias <[e-mail]>, "[e-mail]"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: [weirds] Query Parameters

>It would be very helpful to identify the query parameters that registries
>and registrars currently support. As a start, here's what we currently
>support at Verisign for lookups:
>
>Domain: by domain name (example.com)
>Name server: by host name (ns1.example.com) and by IP address (v4 and v6
>text format)
>Registrar: by registrar name (text string case insensitive match) and by
>registrar ID
>Contact: by EPP contact ID and by EPP ROID
>
>Scott


For each gTLD registry contracts with ICANN, it contain specifications on
how a registry is to offer WHOIS service, I surveyed all those
specifications (18 gTLD + new gTLD applicant guidebook) yesterday and here
is what I found: 


 /domain/  - 100% allow query by the domain name.
	 - 1 offer query by ACE of the domain name. (.CAT)
	 - 1 offer query by domain ID (.CAT)

 /contact/ - 100% of the thick registries offer query by contact ID
	  - functionality not offered in thin registries
	  - no other searches are allowed
 

 /nameserver/ - 100% allow queries by the fully qualified hostname
	     - 100% allow queries by the IP address
	     - 2 allow queries by host id maintained by registry (.CAT, .TEL)

 /registrar/  - 100% allow queries by registr name.
	    - 3 allows queries by registrar ID (.NAME, .CAT, .TEL) 		

/default/ -domain name is searched.

Spreadsheet attached, I hope this would be of some use to the group. Let
me know what further work is needed to help make progress.

Kind regards, 
Steve