Custom whois servers misreport country domains
Custom whois servers for country-code TLDs mark unregistered names as invalid or list zero extensions.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 29 November 2024 · last reported 18 August 2025
What's going wrong
Owners who add their own whois server for a country-code domain, such as South African or Botswana registries, find that known domains are reported correctly but unregistered test names are flagged as invalid, or the setup shows zero extensions after it had worked before.
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