Cannot Get CIRA WHOIS Info on Hyphenated .CA Domains (1.Viewing)

DomainRecap · Apr 5, 2024

I'm not sure what's up, but I tried a CIRA WHOIS lookup on a hyphenated domain, then I tried a pile of hyphenated domains that I know exist, but the CIRA WHOIS page keeps erroring out with:

"Sorry, hyphenated-domain.ca contains one or more invalid characters."

It looks like someone at CIRA misidentified the "-" as an invalid character in an update - anyone else get the CIRA WHOIS page to work? Hyphenated domain WHOIS seems to work at other .CA registrars, just not the CIRA page.

@richard.schreier

richard.schreier · Apr 5, 2024

That's a known bug and is being worked on as we speak. Its an issue with the website interface to WHOIS, not an issue with WHOIS itself.

MapleDots · Apr 5, 2024

That one works

richard.schreier · Apr 5, 2024

In the interim you could try the RDAP interface: https://rdap.ca.fury.ca/rdap/domain/domain.ca which provides the same results but less readable.

DomainRecap · Apr 5, 2024

MapleDots said:
That one works

Nope as it's the CIRA WHOIS page with the problem and not the WHOIS system. Webnames and others worked fine for me.

Sorry, mercedes-benz.ca contains one or more invalid characters.
.CA domain names can only contain letters A through Z and numbers 0 to 9. You can also use hyphens in your domain name as long as they don’t appear at the start or end of the domain name.
Try searching again!

MapleDots · Apr 5, 2024

DomainRecap said:
Sorry, merdeces-benz.ca contains one or more invalid characters.

mercedes-benz.ca whois lookup - who.is

DomainRecap · Apr 5, 2024