Hi!

I have noticed that when i run whois <domain> on some domains it returns a lot of information such as registrar name, abuse contact, creation date… but for other domains whois returns a paltry amount of information such as “Malformed request.” or just repeats the domain name and has “status: UNASSIGNABLE”.

HERE IS THE QUESTION: i want to buy a domain for the sole purpose of having a single A record that points to a corresponding PTR record on the VPS provider. however, i prefer to have the whois record be as minimal as the 2 examples i gave above. how are those whois entries so sparse? (the 2 domains in question are .it and a .fail top level domains.)

I am doing all this with the goal of hosting a tor node. any help is greatly appreciated! have a lovely day!