Could DNS help solve this?

[Sten Carlsen]

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.

Does anybody know how whois works?

Big thanks to everybody who responded, I feel embarrassed that the
solution was that simple and I did not figure this out myself.

I use OSX and whois works the same way as described here, no need for
jwhois.

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.


On 11/11/10 15:00, Robert Spangler wrote:
> On Thursday 11 November 2010 03:59, Sten Carlsen wrote:
>
>>  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 ???.
> Why make things so difficult?  How about a simple 'whois <domain>'?  That 
> should get you the information you are looking for.
>
>>  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
> If the domain is registered properly then the above will get you your answer 
> on the first attempt.
>
>>  Somebody put up the whois.uwhois.net, but that rarely gives an answer.
> Then logic would tell you not to use this server.
>
>>  How do you determine where to ask?
> 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.
>
>

-- 
Best regards

Sten Carlsen

No improvements come from shouting:

       "MALE BOVINE MANURE!!!" 

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