$ whois myspecialicon.com
and then, once you know the whois server to use, do:
$ whois myspecialicon.com@whois.corenic.net
so it's become a two-step process, which is okay, but it annoys old fogeys like me who are used to being able to find out "whois" info with a single command.
Perl to the rescue! Enter this line into your .bashrc:
function xwhois { whois $1 | perl -le 'while (<>) { chomp; /Whois Server: (\S+)/i && ($server = $1); print; } if ($server) { open(FD, "whois '$1'\@$server|"); while (<FD>) { chomp; print; } }' }
Then you can do it all in one step:
$ xwhois myspecialicon.com
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