The whois utility looks up records in the databases maintained by several
Network Information Centers (NICs).

Examples:
> whois icannwiki.com
> whois 8.8.8.8

See enclosed guide for more details. 

PERMISSION  UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP     NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
[unknown]                30681   30681 100.0% -lh0- 4275 Nov 22 22:10 whois/src.lha
[unknown]                14275   39022  36.6% -lh5- 2636 Nov 22 21:57 whois/whois
[unknown]                 2386    6411  37.2% -lh5- 7e8a Nov 22 22:06 whois/whois.guide
[unknown]                  275     433  63.5% -lh5- 242d Nov 22 22:18 whois/whois.readme
[unknown]                 2452    6930  35.4% -lh5- 0e9a Nov 22 22:08 whois/whois.txt
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
 Total         5 files   50069   83477  60.0%            Nov 22 17:42