Jeff Godin wrote:

whois -h whois.publicinterestregistry.net unibrow.org

Either that or "whoiss unibrow.org". <plug> Whoiss is wrapper for Unix' whois. It performs lookups for any number of domains, netblocks, handles, IPs, ... on a single command line without specifying the TLD server. It's available at <http://www.roble.com/docs/whoiss>. </plug> -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/