Missing basic packages like pkg_add

The whois command looks for the string "Whois Server:" in the output and, if found, will issue the same query again to that server. This is what you want, except it only works for the first match. You can use a command like whois "domain apple.com" to get just one match from the default server, but markmonitor (used by apple.com) does not accept that syntax. It would work if you could send "domain apple.com" to the default server, and then apple.com to the second server, like this:

function mywhois {
  whois -h `whois "domain $@" | sed '/^.*Whois Server:/!d;s///'` "$@"
}

However this is specific to these whois servers so will not necessarily work for domains on other whois servers. A robust implementation would probably need to have knowledge of specific query and output formats used by a variety of whois server implementations.

By default, FreeBSD ships pkg bootstrap executable that fetches real pkg program. Your error seems to originate from wrongly configured DNS.

Check that your system can resolve DNS names:

# host google.com
# host pkg.freebsd.org

If it doesn't work, check /etc/resolv.conf file.