whois
Client for the whois directory service
query whois.iana.org and follow its referral
explain what is being done
disable recursion from registry to registrar servers
display this help and exit
output version information and exit
find the one level less specific match
find all levels less specific matches
find all one level more specific matches
find all levels of more specific matches
find the smallest match containing a mnt-irt attribute
return brief IP address ranges with abuse contact
turn off object filtering (show email addresses)
turn off grouping of associated objects
return DNS reverse delegation objects too
do an inverse look-up for specified ATTRibutes
only look for objects of TYPE
only primary keys are returned
turn off recursive look-ups for contact information
force to show local copy of the domain object even if it contains referral
also search all the mirrored databases
search the database mirrored from SOURCE
find updates from SOURCE from serial FIRST to LAST
whois -g source:first-last
request template for object of TYPE
request verbose template for object of TYPE
query version server info
query source of server info
query types of server info