How to correctly use whois in the terminal?

Question

Domain Name System

Dear community!
I use macos and zsh, I often have to look up whois information about a domain, I like to do it through zsh, but some domains cannot be looked up
, for example:

➜  ~ whois dot.ph
whois: ph.whois-servers.net: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

With what parameters is it correct to run whois so that it always gives information on the required zone?

Answer 1

$  whois -h whois.iana.org dot.ph

% IANA WHOIS server
% for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org
% This query returned 1 object

domain:       PH

organisation: PH Domain Foundation
address:      27/F Jollibee Plaza
address:      F. Ortigas Ave. Ortigas Center
address:      Pasig Metro Manila 1600
address:      Philippines

contact:      administrative
name:         DOTPH Administrative Contact
organisation: DotPH
address:      Rm A, 7/F, China Overseas Building
address:      139 Hennessy Road
address:      Wanchai, Hong Kong
address:      Hong Kong
phone:        [phone]
e-mail:       [email protected]

contact:      technical
name:         DOTPH Technical Contact
organisation: DotPH
address:      Rm A, 7/F, China Overseas Building
address:      139 Hennessy Road
address:      Wanchai, Hong Kong
address:      Hong Kong
phone:        [phone]
e-mail:       [email protected]

nserver:      1.NS.PH 206.51.255.1 2620:171:805:ad2:7068:0:0:1
nserver:      NS2.CUHK.EDU.HK 137.189.6.21 2405:3000:3:6:0:0:0:15
nserver:      PH.COMMUNITYDNS.NET 194.0.1.23 2001:678:4:0:0:0:0:17
nserver:      SEC4.APNIC.NET 2001:dc0:4001:1:0:1836:0:141 202.12.31.141
nserver:      SNS-PB.ISC.ORG 192.5.4.1 2001:500:2e:0:0:0:0:1

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: http://dot.ph

created:      1990-09-14
changed:      2016-08-25
source:       IANA