WTF: whois "no match" for functioning domain

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ed Skinner wrote:

>      What does it mean for an otherwise functioning domain (ping responds and
> web pages are served correctly) when 'whois' reports:

>
> No match for "NHC-CHURCH.ORG".

Maybe your whois client is out-of-date.

Some flavours of whois(1) are smart enough to connect to the correct whois
server for .org domains.

If not, then tell it the whois server to use, like:

whois -h whois.opensrs.net NHC-CHURCH.ORG

Also try whois server at whois.publicinterestregistry.net and see what it
tells you.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/