On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, William F. Maton wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Darin Divinia wrote:
How does one look up Japan domain registrations?
whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp help
Japanese required for reading the info in some cases.
Actually there should be no Japanese reading required if you attach a /e to the end of your request as follows: martini/martini/u1/jeremiah>whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp ad.jp/e [ JPNIC database provides information on network administration. Its use is ] [ restricted to network administration purposes. For further information, use ] [ 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp help'. To suppress Japanese output, add '/e' at ] [ the end of command, e.g. 'whois -h whois.nic.ad.jp xxx/e'. ] Domain Information: a. [Domain Name] AD.JP g. [Organization] Administrative Domain j. [Address] l. [Organization Type] m. [Administrative Contact] n. [Technical Contact] p. [Name Server] ns1.nic.ad.jp p. [Name Server] ns.wide.ad.jp p. [Name Server] ns0.iij.ad.jp p. [Name Server] dns0.spin.ad.jp p. [Name Server] ns-jp.sinet.ad.jp s. [Network Number] y. [Reply Mail] [State] Connected [Last Update] 96/11/05 10:34:29 (JST) bind-admin@nic.ad.jp martini/martini/u1/jeremiah> Jeremiah Jeremiah Kristal Qwest Internet Solutions Manager, Network Services 201-319-5764