GTLD Servers Report Different IP Address Than Zone Files

[Jim Reid]

BTW, it's stupid and pointless to use a whois server to check on what
information is in the DNS. These are different protocols and they
provide different data. That data may not even come from the same
source. Just because some name and IP address is in some TLD's whois
database doesn't mean it'll be in the TLD's zone file. Or vice versa.