Does a registrar control a domain name's whois?

[Nick Turchiano]

I have a domain name with bigrock.com and when a whois look up is done, you get 'no object found'. I cannot leave this domain name with a broken whois. Bigrock.com said it's not their fault. Any domain geeks experienced this?

 

[Ategy]

Whois is sometimes controlled by the registry and sometimes by the registrar .. it depends on the particular TLD. In the case of .com the WhoIs is indeed controlled by the registrar (that will be changing soon however).

Most ccTLD's are controlled by the specific country or a company they've contracted to operate their domains and/or WhoIs.

So to really know if it is or isn't their fault we'll need to know the TLD.

 

[Nick Turchiano]

Thanks for the reply. It's a .com

 

[Hypersot]

Sometimes it happens but it'd be better if you showed us the domain so we could have a check as well.

If the reason you don't mention the domain is google's crawling then just take a screenshot of it.

 

[namesilo]

Registrars publish WHOIS data for "thin" registries. This includes .com domains (for now).

 

[Nick Turchiano]

The domain name is mdnbc.com. Nothing to hide really just trying to be discreet.

 

[Hypersot]

I always thought that BigRock was part of Logicboxes as in, the whois should show publicdomainregistry as the registrar.

The domain you mentioned shows as being registered with a Vietnamese company (inet corporation).. That's strange.
Every domain I have registered in the past with BigRock showed publicdomainregistry in the whois.

 

[Nick Turchiano]

Thanks for the reply. Any suggestions on how to get this straightened out?

 

[Dynadot]

I have a domain name with bigrock.com and when a whois look up is done, you get 'no object found'. I cannot leave this domain name with a broken whois. Bigrock.com said it's not their fault. Any domain geeks experienced this?

Yes, they control the Whois in this case.

I'm no Engineer, but it sounds like the registrant/administrative/technical ID is missing or has an error of some type. I could be wrong about that too, since I'm just guessing.

Isaiah Bradley