What happened to whois?

[Cricket Liu]

> does your script also figure out for government domains? I am trying
> to find whois info on a .gov domain and am not sure how to find the
> whois server(s) for those domains.  A simple whois fails saying it
> only has the com/net/org/edu domains.  And search faq's etc for network
> solutions, arin, DoD, etc. doesn't give me any ref.  I am sorry if it
> is right under my nose, but I am missing the whois servers for .gov.

http://www.nic.gov/cgi-bin/whois

cricket

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