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+package whois
+
+// Support for the WHOIS protocol.
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"net"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Query returns a semi-raw response from a WHOIS server for a given query.
+// We only convert \r\n to \n, and then do no other transformation to the data.
+func Query(ctx context.Context, server string, query string) (string, error) {
+	var d net.Dialer
+	conn, err := d.DialContext(ctx, "tcp", server)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("while dialing %q: %v", server, err)
+	}
+
+	defer conn.Close()
+
+	fmt.Fprintf(conn, "%s\r\n", query)
+
+	data, err := ioutil.ReadAll(conn)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("while receiving data from %q: %v", server, err)
+	}
+
+	return strings.ReplaceAll(string(data), "\r", ""), nil
+}