On 10 Aug 2005, at 06:36, Florian Weimer wrote:
Is there some kind of real-time WHOIS for .COM (and friends) which
allows you to determine at least the corresponding registrar?
whois.crsnic.net?
the issue is that VGRS does not even allow a registrar to find out this
information real-time. Other registries publish this information in the
whois and also make it available to registrars through EPP real-time.