too many hits?

 Dear all,

 lately I get messages from the RIPE database when querying it with whois
 that there are too many hits, e.g:

jade$ whois -h whois.ripe.net "Stefan Anders"
The index search returned too many hits.
Please refine your search key.

 I had a look at the database and there are exactly three entries which
 contain the string "Stefan Anders":

jade$ grep "Stefan Anders" ripe.db.pn
*pn: Stefan Andersson
*pn: Stefan Anders
*pn: K A Stefan Andersson

 Does not seem to be a lot, does it? Is this an error of the database
 software or is it an indexing problem (there have been other problems
 reported on the indexing software in the last weeks...)?

 Regards
           Joachim
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