> Have you tried jwhois?
Oh, for Pete's sake. Lynn was (pretty clearly) trying to point out that the programming required to build your OWN tool is essentially trivial, and if you build your own, then the only person you must rely on for it to be up-to-date is yourself...someone who you might reasonably be expected to have more control over than, oh, I don't know, ANYBODY ELSE.
The "Have you tried Brand X?" type of questions completely ignore the point that Lynn was making.
True. However, not everyone has the time/skill-set/desire to maintain a tool like this. In fact, I bet the reason that there are dozens of solutions to this problem is because someone, at some point, said "hey, I can just maintain this myself." How many of those people are going to tire as well? And who's to say the original poster won't either?
Anyway, this is kinda off-topic now. Yes, there are many tools to do this. I was going to suggest jwhois as well, until I noticed someone else had. And it's a FSF project. Chances are it will be well maintained. And if it isn't ... you've got the source code. :)
- Colin
