whois server features

Wed Jan 7 20:24:10 UTC 2015

> This is not the response I was looking for (and reading the RFC makes
> me feel even worse).
>
> Is there a better mechanism for querying NICs for host/owner information?
>

There will be, one day. And the start (although not the whole journey) will
be when this I-D follows the standard path all the way to STD:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-weirds-rdap-query-18.html

Rubens