1WHOIS.CONF(5) Debian GNU/Linux WHOIS.CONF(5)
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6 whois.conf - alternative WHOIS servers list for whois client
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10 /etc/whois.conf
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14 This file contains a list of WHOIS servers which can augment or over‐
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17 It's a plain text file in ASCII encoding. Each line consists of two
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21 Fields are separated by non-empty sequence of space or a tabular char‐
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25 The pattern is case-insensitive extended regular expression if whois
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30 Internationalized domain names (IDN) must be specified in ascii-compat‐
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35 \.nz$ nz.whois-servers.net
36 # Hangul Korean TLD
37 \.xn--3e0b707e$ whois.kr
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39 ^as645(1[2-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-4])$ whois.example.net
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43 /etc/whois.conf
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51 This manual page was written by Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com> and is
52 licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2
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57Petr Písař 2019-12-30 WHOIS.CONF(5)