> This is awful. Why don't they simply give the same kind of referral record
> like Verisign does? Then one can parse it and go to the correct whois. I
> can do this also now, but with this mess they currently display I fear
> wording could easily change and there's also no way to find out when
> records actually have been transferred and are available from PIR.
They are using the phrase "whois server:" to flag an entry as a referral,
so set~ up your parsing script to detect that phrase then query the
referred WHOIS server.
Of course they are assuming that no registrant will ever put the pharse
"whois server:" somewhere in their contact data. (maybe they have already
thought of this and banned the entry of that complete phrase)
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