dhp@moon-gen-3:~$ /usr/bin/bwwhois emma.tel BW whois 5.0 by Bill Weinman (http://whois.bw.org/) Copyright 1999-2006 William E. Weinman Request: emma.tel connected to whois.crsnic.net [199.7.55.74:43] ... Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. No match for domain "EMMA.TEL". >>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:50:52 UTC <<< ... what is wrong; see whois emma.tel, and how it have been updated. Thanks.
There's a version 5.5 available with the same problem.
This should be reported to upstream if still alive
Thank-you for the report, this is now fixed in CVS. + 07 Aug 2012; Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org> +bwwhois-5.5.1.ebuild, + +files/bwwhois-5.5.1-tel.patch, -bwwhois-5.0.ebuild, metadata.xml: + Version bump, remove old. Add patch to support .tel queries wrt bug #276749.
fix confirmed.