[dns-operations] whois no longer follows thin registry referral?

[John Levine]

In article <d36b62e6-1ce9-0c12-f398-b1a1616c56b8 at dougbarton.email> you write:
>I'm putting the finishing touches on a Perl whois client module that 
>solves this problem, and a bunch of others; ...

I have a similar module I use for whois scraping at abuse.net.  It's
somewhat specialized, just looks for owner, admin, and expiration
date, caches the results in a local mysql database, and tries to
recognize whois proxy services.  Most of the code is routines that try
to parse the zillion funky registrar whois formats.

If you want to play with it, visit https://www.taugh.com/tw/

R's,
John