Re: [weirds] Query Parameters

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <[e-mail]>]

Excellent - thanks! I'll use this to update our draft.

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Sheng [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 2:52 PM
> To: Hollenbeck, Scott; Francisco Arias; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [weirds] Query Parameters
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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