https://github.com/rfc1036/whois

Intelligent WHOIS client
https://github.com/rfc1036/whois

domains whois whois-client whois-lookup

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Intelligent WHOIS client

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rfc1036/whois
• Owner: rfc1036
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2013-03-31T06:19:42.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: next
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-26T21:22:31.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-23T00:18:16.454Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: domains, whois, whois-client, whois-lookup
• Language: C
• Size: 1.17 MB
• Stars: 519
• Watchers: 45
• Forks: 118
• Open Issues: 23
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
In 1999 I wrote this Whois client from scratch because the alternatives

were obsolete or bloated.

This client is intelligent and can automatically select the appropriate

whois server for most queries.

The internal database is often more accurate than IANA's published one,

but please send me any information you have regarding domains and network

resources which are not correctly handled by the program.

Because of historical reasons this package also contains the mkpasswd

program, which can be used to encrypt a password with crypt(3).

The canonical distribution point for releases of the program is

https://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/ .

Useful information sources:

- https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/current-ripe-documents/ripe-database-documents

- https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/

- https://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion

- https://www.aftld.org/

Marco d'Itri