The output from the registry WHOIS query will indicate the website address and WHOIS server address for domain's registrar of record, where full contact information can be found.

Key Points:

1. Only the WHOIS server of a domains' registrar of record can be considered authoritative

2. Some Registrar's configure their WHOIS server to perform a 'registry lookup' for other Registrar's domain names; some will even go so far as to perform a lookup on another registrar's WHOIS server. However, the only sure way to check domain availability or get contact and expiry information is to perform a WHOIS query with the domain's registrar of record. As a convenience, the OpenSRS WHOIS server is configured to check other Registrars' WHOIS databases.

3. Many WHOIS databases are not updated in realtime, so that you can make a change to record, but the change will not appear in the WHOIS output until sometime the next day. OpenSRS's WHOIS server is updated in realtime for all domains that we are the registrar for.

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