From 4f374d16b0ca0b10495a773dc8af04189f01394c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 04:13:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] whois.1: document the default for Verisign queries

---
 whois.1 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/whois.1 b/whois.1
index 99e44ae..5954764 100644
--- a/whois.1
+++ b/whois.1
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ Return the verbose template for a object of \fITYPE\fP.
 .B -x
 Search for only exact match on network address prefix.
 .SH "NOTES"
+When querying the Verisign gTLDs (e.g. .com, .net...) thin registry servers
+for a domain the program will automatically prepend the \fIdomain\fP
+keyword to only show domain records.
+The \fInameserver\fP or \fIregistrar\fP keywords must be used to show
+other kinds of records.
 .P
 When querying \fIwhois.arin.net\fP for IPv4 or IPv6 networks, the CIDR
 netmask length will be automatically removed from the query string.