# whois-mcp-server MCP Server Domain registration, availability, DNS records, and IP/ASN resolution via RDAP and DNS-over-HTTPS. **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled whois-mcp-server yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim. ## Connect Published as `@cyanheads/whois-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally. ## Known issues **11 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 8. ### Most discussed ### bug(whois_lookup_ip): IP/CIDR validator accepts malformed input and misses reserved ranges ### Server version 0.1.3 ### mcp-ts-core version 0.10.6 ### Runtime Bun ### Runtime version Bun 1.3.11 / Bun 1.3.14 ### Transport HTTP (Streamable HTTP) ### Description `whois_lookup_ip`'s address validator (`validateIp` / `isPrivateIp` in `src/services/rdap/rdap-service.ts`) is too permissive in three related ways, all confirmed against the current source: 1. **Extra CIDR suffixes are silently dropped.** `hasCidr` is computed as `parts.length === 2`, so an input with more than one ` [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/whois-mcp-server/issues/6) · 2026-06-28 · open · 3 comments ### ux(whois_get_dns): description leaks internal resolver routing details The `whois_get_dns` tool description exposes internal implementation details that aren't useful to callers and shouldn't be part of the public tool contract: > "Uses Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 as primary resolver with Google 8.8.8.8 as fallback (and primary for CAA records, since Cloudflare returns raw hex wire format for those)." This tells the caller which specific DNS resolver IPs are used and why one is routed differently for CAA — an internal routing decision. The caller only needs to know that D [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/whois-mcp-server/issues/3) · 2026-06-07 · closed · 3 comments ### ux(whois_check_availability): rdap_no_coverage error contract is dead — no-coverage case returns data, never throws The `whois_check_availability` tool declares an `errors[]` contract entry for `rdap_no_coverage`: ```ts { reason: 'rdap_no_coverage', code: JsonRpcErrorCode.NotFound, ... } ``` But the handler never throws this error. When the TLD has no RDAP coverage, it returns `{ available: null, rdap_coverage: false }` as a successful result — which is actually the correct, preferable behavior (availability-check callers want a concrete answer, not an error). ### Steps to reproduce 1. Call `whois_check_a [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/whois-mcp-server/issues/4) · 2026-06-07 · closed · 2 comments ### bug(whois_lookup_domain): domain_not_found error missing recovery.hint ### Server version 0.1.1 ### mcp-ts-core version ^0.9.21 ### Runtime Bun/Node ### Transport HTTP (Streamable HTTP), confirmed via field test ### Description The `domain_not_found` error contract on `whois_lookup_domain` declares a recovery hint but it never appears in the error response. The contract's `recovery` text ("The domain is not registered. Use whois_check_availability to confirm availability for registration.") is absent from `result.structuredContent.error.data`. ### Steps t [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/whois-mcp-server/issues/2) · 2026-06-07 · closed · 2 comments ### fix(dns): DoH fallback uses Google Public DNS, whose API terms restrict relaying The DNS-over-HTTPS layer falls back to [Google Public DNS](https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/doh) (`dns.google`) for CAA records and as failover for other record types. Google's [APIs Terms of Service](https://developers.google.com/terms) §4(a) prohibits creating "an API Client that functions substantially the same as the APIs and offer it for use by third parties" — which a server resolving DNS on behalf of its callers arguably does. The [Cloudflare](https://developers.cloudfl [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/whois-mcp-server/issues/1) · 2026-06-05 · closed · 2 comments ### Most recent ### bug(whois_get_dns): mixed resolver queries collapse provenance to Cloudflare ### Server version 0.1.3 ### mcp-ts-core version 0.10.6 ### Runtime Bun ### Runtime version Bun 1.3.14 ### Transport HTTP (Streamable HTTP) ### Description `whois_get_dns` can fetch one response from multiple resolvers, but its singular `source` field reports only `cloudflare` whenever any non-CAA query succeeds there. A mixed query therefore loses the provenance of records returned by NextDNS in both MCP result paths. ### Steps to reproduce 1. Call `whois_get_dns` with `{ "domain": [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/whois-mcp-server/issues/10) · 2026-07-16 · open · 0 comments ### bug(whois_get_dns): empty types returns fabricated resolver provenance ### Server version 0.1.3 ### mcp-ts-core version 0.10.6 ### Runtime Node.js ### Runtime version Node 24.x ### Transport HTTP (Streamable HTTP) ### Description `whois_get_dns` accepts an empty `types` array, performs no DNS query, and returns a successful result whose `source: "nextdns"` claims resolver provenance that never occurred. ### Steps to reproduce 1. Call `whois_get_dns` with `{ "domain": "github.com", "types": [] }`. 2. Inspect both result paths. ### Actual behavior ```j [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/whois-mcp-server/issues/9) · 2026-07-16 · open · 0 comments ### bug(whois_lookup_asn): malformed ASN strings are accepted via parseInt truncation ### Server version 0.1.3 ### mcp-ts-core version 0.10.6 ### Runtime Bun ### Runtime version Bun 1.3.11 ### Transport HTTP (Streamable HTTP) ### Description `whois_lookup_asn` accepts malformed ASN strings because the service normalizes with `parseInt` and does not require the full input to match `AS` or a bare integer. Inputs with trailing characters or decimal notation are silently truncated and resolved as real ASNs. ### Steps to reproduce 1. Start the server over HTTP. 2. 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