Whois lookup for .dev tld times out

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Hi,

Similar issue to this came up the other day for .au domains:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/whois-for-au-tld-times-out/75299

a quick google for whois of google domains found this:

https://serverfault.com/questions/711354/why-cant-i-whois-google-domains

Following a suggestion in the link I found this:

$ whois -h whois.iana.org google | grep ^whois
whois:        whois.nic.google

So it looks like google’s whois server has changed again, I can get a result if I update /etc/jwhois.conf:

        #"\\.dev$" = "domain-registry-whois.l.google.com";
        "\\.dev$" = "whois.nic.google";

Thanks Tom.

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