whois.sh is a useless, unusable, incomplete, badly coded and poorly designed bash rewrite of the standard Linux whois command.

Sometime is fun to fix something that is not broken replacing it with something else which is broken by design.

This client is dumb and just in some cases can automatically select a kinda ok whois server for the given query. In every other cases you need to query the specific whois server to get the infos.

Querying a whois server

If you really whant to do so, you can query a specific whois server:

./whois.sh --host whois.nic.dev --port 43 google.dev

Whois an IP address

whois.sh is dumb and can't autoguess the correct whois server for a given IP. But, again, you can directly send a query to a whois server:

./whois.sh --host whois.arin.net 140.82.121.3

That's all

Feel free to be upset about the existence of this dumb whois client.