I have recently made available new version of completewhois tool and website. There are many new features in the whois engine (see below about that). As far as website of expected interest to NANOG community is the results of investigations into number of hijacked ip blocks (done by me and others in cooperation on hijacked mailing list) - the list of hijacked ip blocks and investigation files (to find and notify proper ip block owner) are available at http://www.completewhois.com/hijacked/ And as far as new features in whois engine, these are: 1. A fully developed website with (hopefully user-friendly) GUI interface http://www.completewhois.com/ 2. An even more complex whois engine with large set of options that can be used by those doing direct queries from unix server (for list of options see http://www.completewhois.com/help.htm) 3. Ability do combined searches, for example do both whois on domain and also have engine do whois on all ips of nameservers for the domain or whois on ip and reverse dns domain for the as well as combine results with dns (3 types of dns queries), radb, etc. 4. Ability to SAVE results for later retrieval (that means query results are saved in our the database and you can quickly access it or have the url reference from the website). This is usefull to preserve whois record in case it may change in the future. 5. CGI now allow direct reference as URL (supports GET paramters), i.e. http://www.completewhois.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=nanog.org&options=dns 6. Larger set of supported top level domains - around 150 (but this is work currently in progress as all domain settings are being reviewed). 7. Whois on .COM/.NET/.ORG domains have ip of nameserver resolved as part of whois query - both whois in crsnic and dns lookups are used (option can control which is used and how). In the future, this will be supported for number of other domains as well. 8. As always engine maintains best ip whois functionality and follows a lot of refererals to other more specific whois databases run by isps and country nics (announced last week by ARIN "ReferralServer" field is by now supported too). 9. Support for IPv6 should now be working (requires explicit option enable_ip6=on and its still early beta and bit buggy) both for ip whois and for dns, including domain nameservers. Direct IPv6 whois access is in development and will probably be available in September. So now feel free to check this all out and beta test it and send your comments offline to comments@completewhois.com. As always this is free tool with no commercial interruptions of any kind :) -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william@elan.net