whois

I know that Debian, as a rule, removes packages which are not maintained “upstream”. Regarding Whois clients specifically, it seems that Debian maintains its own Whois client: <https://github.com/rfc1036/whois> This is something which Debian usually does not do, and when it happens, it usually means that there is no updated maintained version available, but the software is too important to remove.

Cool story: the whois server for ga zone is not pointed in whole internet (iana empty records: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ga.html). Old working web-whois: https://whois.freenom.com/cgi-bin/whois?domainname=nic.ga&lo... Old canonical from whois utility: https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/commit/57a51c9fdb4d310e8deb... So I just guessed it: whois.nic.ga (web&whois protocol)

Actually, it's not that many that have documentation available. /s But, given that Donuts Inc are the overlord of the internet in terms of (g)TLDs, there's not as many as some might think. The native whois client on most distributions is on github and contains a self-maintained list of whois servers in case you're curious [1]. It also contains a list of all new gTLDs [2], which, for the most part are registered via Donuts Inc. in the end. It's kinda ridiculous that something like ".gmbh" is owned, hosted, and distributed by an American company in Texas :-/ The interesting part is that some companies like "dotBERLIN GmbH & Co KG" (for .berlin) operate their own whois servers but seemingly reuse the infrastructure that Donuts Inc. provides for them. The ICANNWiki also has some nice side-facts about registrars if you're more curious about th

Rad. Did some clicking around, here's the upstream https://github.com/rfc1036/whois