Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:11:22 +0200 From: Yann Berthier <yb@sainte-barbe.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WHOIS Server Message-ID: <20040411101122.GA21822@hsc.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0404071353160.88568@manganese.bos.dyndns.org> References: <20040407160825.GA44406@ns2.wananchi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0404071353160.88568@manganese.bos.dyndns.org>
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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004, Tim Wilde wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> > Hello people,
> >
> > I am lost as to where to do whois queries these days. It seems that
> > every TLD extension has been assigned to some particular registrar (or
> > what do I call it?)
> > What is the sane way of doing whois for "any" domain extension
> > (.com/.org/.biz, etc)?
>
> FreeBSD's WHOIS does this for you automatically. It works by using
> whois-servers.net:
>
> dig com.whois-servers.net. +short
> whois.verisign-grs.com.
> 198.41.3.54
>
> ANYTLD.whois-servers.net will CNAME to the appropriate WHOIS server for
> that TLD. FreeBSD's WHOIS (for quite a few versions now) will
> automatically try to extract the TLD from your query and query the
> appropriate server, as long as you don't explicitly tell it one to use.
> It will also follow referrals, so WHOIS on a .com will get you the .com
> registry response followed by the response from the actual registrar the
> domain is with.
And if that fails, you can try to query the completewhois.com whois
server, it does quite a good job
- yann
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