early registration addresses not administered by APNIC

[mMerlin]

Got "I refuse to bother search-apnic-not-arin@apnic.net" for 150.164.64.59.  Manual whois output includes:

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descr:          Early registration addresses
remarks:        ------------------------------------------------------
remarks:        Important:
remarks:
remarks:        Networks in this range were allocated by InterNIC
remarks:        prior to the formation of Regional Internet
remarks:        Registries (RIRs): AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and RIPE NCC.
remarks:
remarks:        Address ranges from this historical space have now
remarks:        been transferred to the appropriate RIR database.remarks:
remarks:        If your search has returned this record, it means the
remarks:        address range is not administered by APNIC.
remarks:
remarks:        Instead, please search one of the following databases:

In this case, the correct answer is found with

whois --host whois.afrinic.net 150.164.64.59

Looks like the parsing needs to check for this result, and retry.