14 Mar
2013
14 Mar
'13
3:01 a.m.
Geektools whois provides no benefit over a whois query to RIPE.
If you're querying a RIPE IP address, that's true. It does, however, also query the other RIR databases to provide a single front-end that people might find useful. An interesting statistic may be less the four services using the DB proxy service, but the number of (not list of) client IP addresses using the service, or the rate of queries received over it. Nick has summarised this well, and I fall into the free-but-contract camp. All the best, Rob