From 8ccab2cb13c178bd487acd9566d9e38ee0ffbb30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:38:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Ask whois.iana.org about TLDs

Recognize as a TLD any string without dots present in tld_serv_list
and new_gtlds_list.
---
 whois.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/whois.c b/whois.c
index 7cb54bc..125db8e 100644
--- a/whois.c
+++ b/whois.c
@@ -496,6 +496,15 @@ char *guess_server(const char *s)
 
     /* no dot and no hyphen means it's a NSI NIC handle or ASN (?) */
     if (!strpbrk(s, ".-")) {
+	/* if it is a TLD or a new gTLD then ask IANA */
+	for (i = 0; tld_serv[i]; i += 2)
+	    if (strcaseeq(s, tld_serv[i]))
+		return strdup("whois.iana.org");
+
+	for (i = 0; new_gtlds[i]; i++)
+	    if (strcaseeq(s, new_gtlds[i]))
+		return strdup("whois.iana.org");
+
 	if (strncaseeq(s, "as", 2) &&		/* it's an AS */
 		(isasciidigit(s[2]) || s[2] == ' '))
 	    return strdup(whereas(atol(s + 2)));