whois.geek.nz

A whois service that is current.

whois.geek.nz aliases the official whois server for each tld.

While you can use them directly via:

whois -h ${TLD}.whois.geek.nz

you can make this easier by adding this to your .bashrc or other compatible shell initialization script:

cat >> ~/.bashrc <<EOF

WHOIS=`which whois`
iwhois() {
    resolver=".whois.geek.nz"
    tld=`echo ${@: -1} | awk -F "." '{print $NF}'`
    if [ `echo $tld | egrep 'com|net|tv|cc'` ]; then
        $WHOIS "$@"
    else
        $WHOIS -h $tld$resolver "$@"
    fi;
}
EOF

Then you can use iwhois as a command that automatically looks at the correct server.

if you fancy you can even replace the standard whois with iwhois by adding this:

alias whois='iwhois'

to the end of your .profile or .bashrc.

Please submit pull requests/issues if this function doesn't work, or there are better solutions, for your shell and we can add them.