FYI: bw-whois updated for .org

[Bill Weinman]

I know that many of you are using my BW Whois on your sites.

I have just released BW Whois version 3.4. The major change is that it now works with the .org registry.

The .ORG whois server at whois.publicinterestregistry.net is a "thin" whois server that refers requests to another whois server (e.g., whois.opensrs.net), in much the same manner as the .COM/.NET thin server at whois.crsnic.net. Instead of copying the format of a working thin server (e.g., whois.crsnic.net), the folks at Afilias chose to implement their own new format (which is both unnecessary and dysfunctional). As if that weren't enough of a wrench-in-the-works, they chose to use bare CR (\x0D) for line-endings.

My whois software was smart enough to know that they were making referrals, but alas it broke down on the line-endings. That is fixed in the 3.4 version.

Download here: [http://whois.bw.org/]

--Bill



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