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Created October 26, 2015 11:51
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  1. rquigley created this gist Oct 26, 2015.
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    #!/bin/bash

    set -e
    set -o pipefail

    BIN="/usr/bin/whois"
    DOMAIN=$1

    echo "Fetching domain's whois server..."
    RES=$($BIN $DOMAIN)
    SERVER=$(echo "$RES" | grep -i whois\ server: | head -1 | awk '{print $NF'})
    if [[ $SERVER ]]; then
    echo "Querying whois server '$SERVER'..."
    # Avoid rate-limiting
    sleep 1
    $BIN -h $SERVER $DOMAIN
    else
    echo "$RES"
    fi

    exit 0