Systems and methods for automatically providing whois service to top level domains

摘要

Methods and systems are disclosed for quickly providing Whois services to a new top level domain after it is provisioned in a registry. In one embodiment, domain data is received at a first system regarding a top level domain (TLD). The domain data is assigned an authoritative port of a Whois server and is provisioned in a registry database. In certain embodiments, the Whois server provides information relating to domain name registrations of the TLD in the database, according to the authoritative port. The Whois server determines that a Whois query is received at the authoritative port for the queried TLD and responds with the queried information. To the requester, the responses appear as if they are sent from a unique Whois server for each TLD, but the Whois server is actually shared among the TLDs.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for establishing a generic top level domain, comprising:
receiving, at a first computer system, domain data associated with the generic top level domain; associating, with the domain data, a network address corresponding to a second computer system; provisioning the generic top level domain, wherein the provisioning comprises:
transmitting the domain data to the second computer system, whereby the second computer system initiates a registration data lookup service for the generic top level domain using the domain data; andinitiating assignment of the network address as an authoritative network address for the generic top level domain, wherein the authoritative network address comprises at least one of an authoritative port and an authoritative internet protocol (IP) address of the second computer system; and storing, in one or more registry databases, the domain data and the network address that was associated, wherein a registration data lookup query for the generic top level domain is received by the second computer system and the second computer system rejects the registration data lookup query based on a determination that the registration data lookup query is received via a network address that does not match the authoritative network address for the generic top level domain.