Problems setting up a master ".biz" domain

[David Blacka]

On Feb 6, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Seth Blank wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am working as a consultant for a web hosting company which is  
> registered
> as a .biz.
>
> rwhoisd 1.5 (the latest build off of rwhois.net that I am aware of)  
> does not
> appear to like the "name:" parameter of rwhoisd.auth_area to be  
> a .biz.
> Simply changing the name parameter to a .com has fixed this problem
> temporarily, but I would like to use the proper company name in the  
> rwhois
> database.
>
> Any suggestions, comments, or references to the proper location in  
> the RFC
> which tells me a .biz can't be a master rwhois record would be greatly
> appreciated.

This is overzealousness on the part of the rwhoisd 1.5.x code base.   
There is certainly no protocol reason to disallow .biz authority  
areas (or even .foo authority areas, at this point).

The following (utterly untested) patch might help:

Index: auth_area.c
===================================================================
--- auth_area.c (revision 1896)
+++ auth_area.c (working copy)
@@ -1292,36 +1292,13 @@
    op_str = NEW_STRING(aa_name);
-  /* domain format: the second level has to be:
-   *  country-code  -OR-  EDU, COM, GOV, NET, ORG
-   */
    if (!(p = strrchr(op_str, '/')))
    {
      /* create directory */
      strcpy (directory, aa_name);
-    /* grab second level */
-    if ((p = strrchr(op_str, '.')))
-    {
-      p++;
-    }
-    else
-    {
-      p = op_str;
-    }
-    if (strlen(p) == 2 && is_country_code(p))
-    {
-      free(op_str);
-      return TRUE;
-    }
-    if (strlen(p) == 3 && strSTR("EDU GOV COM NET ORG INT", p))
-    {
-      free(op_str);
-      return TRUE;
-    }
-
      free(op_str);
-    return FALSE;
+    return TRUE;
    }
    else
    /* network format:


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David Blacka    <davidb at verisignlabs.com>
Sr. Engineer    VeriSign Applied Research



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