I don't think WHOIS can do anything with 'localhost'. And besides, there isn't a WHOIS module on CPAN that handles even 25% of registrars out there. I know, because I've written nearly 250 registrar parsers myself over the past few months. I'll release it eventually.
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Jeff
japhy Pinyan,
P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.:
Perl,
regex,
and
perl
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