jklowden@schemamania.org (James K. Lowden) writes:
> I registered a domain name last year and got to know "whois" in the
> process.  Something's definitely afoot in the whois world, though,
> because the NetBSD whois client used to return my name & address,
> etc., and no longer does.  And the 1.4.2 whois is frequently more
> helpful than the 1.5.2 one is.  

Try jwhois.  I think you'll like it.

        cd /usr/pkgsrc/net/jwhois ; make install

It has a table to get the correct top-level registrar and also chains
through the redirects.  Best unexpected feature is the whois lookup by
IP addr with ARIN et. al.

        jwhois 1.2.3.4

-wolfgang
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