gwhois
gwhois is a generic whois client (and server) which strives to know the right server to query for each and every top level domain and IP address. You can ask gwhois about a domain or IP address, and it will automatically forward your query to the appropriate server. It even queries whois servers that can only be reached by a Web form, and outputs the results as text. It can be used as a client or as a relaying server, so you can use your normal whois client to ask gwhois.
| Tags | Internet Networking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 16 Jul 2008 21:08
Changes: The output for .name domains and handles was made more verbose.
- 26 Jun 2008 21:00
Changes: This release fixes the settings for the lookup of domains in the .ms top level domain.
- 19 Feb 2008 05:44
Changes: The support for 63 top level domains was fixed or modified (e.g. where whois is no longer available). The TLDs .arpa, .asia, and .tel were added, as was a whois for the subdomains of Centralnic. Support for the no longer existing top level domain .cs was removed.
- 03 Oct 2007 16:32
Changes: Support for the top level domains .me (Montenegro) and .kp (PR Korea) was added. Support for .rs (Serbia) was fixed.
- 05 Sep 2007 11:23
Changes: The output for the .com and .net TLD was made slightly more verbose, as the data from Verisign GRS is now included completely. Spanish and Portoguese translations (for Debian) were included. Lookup for the TLD .va (Vatican) is now available.
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Recent commentsgwhois
great piece of code.
The whois command should work like this from the get go, but it doesn't.
Thanks for the fine code.