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Well, this points the finger at me, I have normally used whois with
a specific server to ask the question, never thinking it could be
that simple.<br>
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Does anybody know how whois works?<br>
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Big thanks to everybody who responded, I feel embarrassed that the
solution was that simple and I did not figure this out myself.<br>
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I use OSX and whois works the same way as described here, no need
for jwhois.<br>
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OSX has a Network Utility that will look domains up using whois.
This does not work well, I made the mistake to think it was
functioning well, it doesn't.<br>
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On 11/11/10 15:00, Robert Spangler wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:201011110900.54740.mlists@zoominternet.net"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On Thursday 11 November 2010 03:59, Sten Carlsen wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Yes, I do use whois, my problem is which of the many dozens of whois
servers to ask.
E.g. if you want to know who owns telephone.com(random example), do you
ask whois.moniker.com, whois.markmonitor.com, whois.enum.com or ???.
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Why make things so difficult? How about a simple 'whois <domain>'? That
should get you the information you are looking for.
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<pre wrap=""> If you don't know who to ask, it can take maybe 20 attempts before you
find a whois server tha gives some helpful info. In some cases looking
at the NS records helps
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If the domain is registered properly then the above will get you your answer
on the first attempt.
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<pre wrap=""> Somebody put up the whois.uwhois.net, but that rarely gives an answer.
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Then logic would tell you not to use this server.
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<pre wrap=""> How do you determine where to ask?
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I don't, I allow whois to do that for me.
Using your example:
whois telephone.com
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.tucows.com]
[Querying whois.tucows.com]
[whois.tucows.com]
Please provide a real world example where you cannot get the whois
information.
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Best regards
Sten Carlsen
No improvements come from shouting:
"MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!"
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