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Submitted by: 24.239.190.139
Evidence:

The .DE whois server is broken. I should be able to telnet to the WHOIS server on the whois port, send it a domain, and get results. If I do that, I get:

$ telnet whois.denic.de whois
Trying 81.91.162.7...
Connected to whois.denic.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
denic.de
domain:      denic.de
status:      connect

Connection closed by foreign host.

The only way to get "real" data out of the .DE whois server is to use cryptic options:

$ telnet whois.denic.de whois
Trying 81.91.162.7...
Connected to whois.denic.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
-T dn,ace -C US-ASCII denic.de 
% Copyright (c)2004 by DENIC
% Version: 1.00.0
%
% Restricted rights.
[.... snip ....]


Further, these options are not documented anywhere, because the usual "help" methodology, as documented by the RFC, doesn't work:

$ telnet whois.denic.de whois
Trying 81.91.162.7...
Connected to whois.denic.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
?
domain:      ?
status:      invalid

Connection closed by foreign host.