> I am not sure who the correct maintainer of the whois software that is > available on all *nix systems but I am reaching out to both of these > addresses as these were the only ones I could find from various man > pages.
It's me, well documented everywhere. GNU whois is maintained by the GNU inetutils team, and that is documented in any --help or --version output. GNU inetutils almost 20 years ago imported a copy of my whois, but it is a dead project. That is simply not true. If you have any patches, then they are most welcome.
