Unless they changed the whois responses in the past few weeks (I know the
website changed), whois queries show "On hold" (if it's actually on hold)
underneath the domain name toward the top of the whois results. You may
need to pipe the output to "more" if your command window is small:
whois whatever.com |more
Josh
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