Description of problem: According to IANA (http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ia.html), the current authoritative whois server is "whois.ai", /etc/jwhois.conf contains something else which looks like a web-whois, please change. Real whois server is always better than something via http. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): jwhois-4.0-10 How reproducible: Everytime. Actual results: # whois nic.ai [Querying http://whois.offshore.ai/cgi-bin/whois.pl] [...] # Expected results: Replace: "\\.ai$" = "whois.offshore.ai"; by : "\\.ai$" = "whois.ai"; AND REMOVE the following block: --- snipp --- "whois\\.offshore\\.ai" { http = "true"; http-method = "POST"; http-action = "/cgi-bin/whois.pl"; form-element = "domain-name"; } --- snapp --- Additional info: Please try to get this fix upstream - upstream is unluckily always very very unresponsive to me.