Geektools 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

Geektools 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 Like I said the same functionality is already built into a few whois clients, they are just using a DNS zone that is no longer updated.