Looking at the innards of Net::Whois when it makes a request for maserith.com, the results from the whois server are coming back in a form that Net::Whois doesn't understand. Which is bad news, because even though it's a valid return, Net::Whois can't understand it.

Which leaves you in the position of patching Net::Whois, perhaps. :)

On the question of whether it's (un)reliable: you might take a look at this message from the modules@perl.org list. I'm not in a position to say one way or the other who's in the right :), but it certainly does seem that Net::Whois needs some changes/fixes.

And with that in mind, you might take a look at the module mentioned in that message, Net::ParseWhois. I just tried it myself, and it works for maserith.com. The interface seems to be identical to that of Net::Whois; just change instances of Net::Whois to Net::ParseWhois and you're done: 

    use Net::ParseWhois;
    my $w = new Net::ParseWhois::Domain "maserith.com";
    ....

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In reply to Re: Net::Whois troubles by btrott
in thread Net::Whois troubles by Ovid

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