# HG changeset patch
# User Evgeni Kunev <evgeni.kunev@gmail.com>
# Date 1415619757 -7200
# Node ID 52ce01013731e79b43efa2d91390919bcf272beb
# Parent  5cd71f1dc42beb7d4cc43ec3f015931e420d4192
Handle experimental lookup method for bad domains

Attempting to use NICClient with bad domains could hit a bad logical path that
leads to an attempt to reference a variable that hasn't been defined. So in case
we don't manage to find a nichost for a domain, just set `result` to `None`

diff -r 5cd71f1dc42b -r 52ce01013731 whois/whois.py
--- a/whois/whois.py	Fri Oct 03 16:40:07 2014 +0200
+++ b/whois/whois.py	Mon Nov 10 13:42:37 2014 +0200
@@ -206,6 +206,8 @@
             nichost = self.choose_server(query_arg)
             if (nichost is not None):
                 result = self.whois(query_arg, nichost, flags)
+            else:
+                result = ''
         else:
             result = self.whois(query_arg, options['whoishost'], flags)
         # print 'whois_lookup finished'