whois.ripe.net as currently configured for jwhois doesn't know about .bg domains. Apparently the registrar digsys.bg have a working whois server at whois.digsys.bg here is a patch diff -u -b -p -r1.124 jwhois.conf --- example/jwhois.conf 22 Apr 2006 20:40:17 -0000 1.124 +++ example/jwhois.conf 10 May 2006 15:41:31 -0000 @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ whois-servers { "\\.az$" = "whois.ripe.net"; "\\.ba$" = "whois.ripe.net"; "\\.be$" = "whois.dns.be"; - "\\.bg$" = "whois.ripe.net"; + "\\.bg$" = "whois.digsys.bg"; "\\.bi$" = "www.nic.bi"; "\\.biz$" = "whois.neulevel.biz"; "\\.bm$" = "rwhois.ibl.bm 4321"; I've not contacted digsys.bg to confirm this. I've contacted jwhois upstream about making the change.
Fixed in rawhide jwhois-3.2.3-5. Thanks for your report.
jwhois-3.2.3-8.fc5 has been pushed for fc5, which should resolve this issue. If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.