I looked up 3 domain "whois" results and on the 3rd recieved this:

Whois Results for XXXX.COM

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* Welcome to the NSI Registrar Whois Server
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* Your query limit has been exceeded
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- Is this some friendly addition Register.com has instituted?

well just clear your cookies then do another whois, i think that should do the trick, some sms places use that way to limit the number of sms's someone can send froma site in anyone day.:cool:

Yes, this appears to be a recently implemented feature to prevent overload on the WHOIS servers, such is the rate that everyone hits them these days :D

Give it a min or two and try again....... Or use another WHOIS DB...