WHOIS Server

[Odhiambo Washington]

Hello people,

I am lost as to where to do whois queries these days. It seems that
every TLD extension has been assigned to some particular registrar (or
what do I call it?)
What is the sane way of doing whois for "any" domain extension
(.com/.org/.biz, etc)?
OpenSRS recently said they are limiting the number of queries/day that
a given IP range can do on their servers. Now this is restrictive, but
what if I have to run a script that will do more than the "allowed"
queries per day? I have to wait till next day and next day and ..

Is it sane to think that I can run my own local whois server/interface?
If yes, I'll appreciate some pointers. It would be nice if I had an
interface to whois on our website.



-Wash

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