Whois Response issues

Question

Ok trying to work this out and getting confused. I am using the whois command and getting responses from the registrar server ie :

whois google.com

this returns for the expirys :

Created on..............: 1997-09-15.
Expires on..............: 2020-09-13.
Record last updated on..: 2012-01-29.

This is great but I also need the Status of the domain

for example if you goto

http://www.who.is/whois/google.com

I get this info

Status: clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited, serverDeleteProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, serverUpdateProhibited

Expiration Date: 2020-09-14
Creation Date: 1997-09-15
Last Update Date: 2011-07-20

The difference is this extra status item, How can I get that using a whois command??

Answer 1

Every registrar has its own output format. If you query a registrar who does not provide this information, it cannot be obtained (at least not using the whois protocol).

For your particular example of google.com this information is maintained by the top-level registrar at whois.internic.net, though. Apparently your particular whois client is not displaying the output from whois.internic.net. From mine, I get a lengthy result from whois.internic.net (including information about registry entries beginning with google.com. which there are several dozen, some of them rather embarrassing) before the information for this particular domain from its registrar.

I'd recommend writing a simple whois client of your own if you really need to see exactly what is going on. telnet whois.internic.net 43 and type in =google.com for a good start.