finding whois servers, was .pro whois registry down?

[johnl at iecc.com (John R. Levine)]

> - a link from that top-level page to the whole list, in regex-aware,
> whois.conf-compatible format

What uses whois.conf?   Not the whois on my FreeBSD or Mac.

Or you can just use this shell script:

  #!/bin/bash
  WHOISHOST=${1##*.}.ws.sp.am
  exec whois -h $WHOISHOST $*

R's,
John