Josh
>From: Paul T Laudenslager <ptl@monumental.com>
>>Is there a way to find out whether a domain is "on hold" or not using
>whois?
>>It seems I no longer see this message when searching online anymore.
>
>From: Josh Hillman <admin-maillist@talstar.com>
>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