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A lot of Linux based command line whois clients still use "whois-servers.net" to look up up the appropriate whois server for a TLD, which is long dead (it still
by mike_d 4y ago
A lot of Linux based command line whois clients still use "whois-servers.net" to look up up the appropriate whois server for a TLD, which is long dead (it still responds but is no longer maintained).
Many years ago I built a replacement whoisservers.org, and tried contacting a few maintainers, but nobody seemed to really care.
If you want to make use of it, you can run "whois -h com.whoisservers.org exmaple.com" (or substitute -h with the appropriate flag for your client to specify a server)
- teddyh 4y agoSimilar to whois.geektools.com, then?
- mike_d 4y agoGeektools actually does the whois for you. Mine points your client to the appropriate whois server you need to talk to for a specific TLD. Like I said the same functionality is already built into a few whois clients, they are just using a DNS zone that is no longer updated.