> On Apr 21, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > >> But backup and failover are reasonably well understood technologies >> where one cares. Registrars could for example cache copies of those >> zone records and act as failover whois servers.
Sorry! I left out the last line that was the point of my diatribe. Using SRV to point to multiple domain-specific whois servers eliminates the caching problem Barry raised.