What happened to whois?

[Rodney Joffe]

whois.geektools.com is a command line proxy (query at whois.geektools.com
or whois -h whois.geektools.com query), and a web ui
(http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi). 

*nix source is available for the proxy under the software section, as is
a Windows Client. The current version of the proxy is 2.2.5, however the
web ui is running V3.0. As soon as it has been stress tested (few days),
the V3.0 proxy and source will be released.

Basically, the GeekTools SuperWhois knows about 95 authoratative whois
servers, and it automatically queries the correct one depending on the
domain you want to look up. Additionally it automatically recognizes
requests for handles, hosts, ip addresses (it knows which ip registry to
look at, and also digs down using rwhois if an ip answer mentions an
rwhois server), AS numbers, radb policies, and a few other things I
can't remember. Help is available with the web version.

-- 
Rodney Joffe
CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
http://www.centergate.com
"Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"