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CC:	Jay Libove <libove AT felines DOT org>
Subject:	'whois' no longer following referrals ?
Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2017 10:46:06 +0000
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Once upon a time, the UNIX/cygwin ‘whois’ program would follow referrals. So, you could ask, for nearly any domain, ‘whois name.domain’ and whois would first find out which whois server could answer the question, and then would query that whois server and get the answer.
Lately (months? more?), it doesn’t do this anymore ☹

Example below.

There’s even an option (still) in whois to NOT follow referrals ("-r    turn off recursive look-ups for contact information").

Now, we need to manually run a second whois, using the -h HOST option, supplying it the output of the initial whois command's "Registrar WHOIS Server" field.

Is this Just The way It Is now? Or is there an option I'm missing - or a replacement whois program - which still does the recursion automatically?

(I'm on Windows 10 64-bit, "Creators" update, with Cygwin installer 2.881 64-bit, whois package version 5.2.10-1).

thanks,
Jay


C:> WHOIS google.com
   Domain Name: GOOGLE.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 2138514_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com
   Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
   Updated Date: 2011-07-20T16:55:31Z
   Creation Date: 1997-09-15T04:00:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z
   Registrar: MarkMonitor Inc.
   Registrar IANA ID: 292
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abusecomplaints AT markmonitor DOT com
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.2083895740
   Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
   Domain Status: serverDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited
   Name Server: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
   Name Server: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
   Name Server: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
   Name Server: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of whois database: 2017-08-24T10:39:53Z <<<

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