whois
An intelligent pure Ruby WHOIS client and parser.
Ruby Whois whois is an intelligent whois client and parser, written in pure ruby without any external dependency.
I wanted to do some analysis on registered domain names. Looks like I can hit whois.internic.net to get information about each domain, but it also looks like there are rate limits that prevent me from doing large numbers of queries.
Is there a way to periodically (say daily) grab the entire whois database? I really only care about whether a domain is registered or not, so I don't need the full whois information.
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I'm trying to find the list of all whois servers for COM/NET.
Verisign is the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, .name, .cc and .tv domains.
Possible solution:
To find out the complete list of whois servers is to crawl through at least a million of them (via whois.crsnic.net) using the domain list from the .com zone file and read the official whois from the whois result.
That way I could probably build a 90%+ complete list. I'm ready to go that route and post a result here but if anybody knows a better way/source, please do help. Thank you!
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This question has answer in other languages/platforms but I couldn't find a robust solution in C#. Here I'm looking for the part of URL which we use in WHOIS so I'm not interested in sub-domains, port, schema, etc.
Example 1: http://s1.website.co.uk/folder/querystring?key=value => website.co.uk
Example 2: ftp://username:password@website.com => website.com
The result should be the same when the owner in whois is the same so sub1.xyz.com and sub2.xyz.com both belong to who has the xyz.com which I'm need to extract from a URL.
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I'm building a simple webapp to teach myself node.js, and in it I need to check whether a certain domain name specified by the user is registered. I'm not really sure how to go about this and I'd appreciate it if anybody could enlighten me.
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I have several WHOIS servers for which I want to have a single proxy. The proxy should forward requests to appropriate servers based on the data in the query. How to approach this problem?
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I'm building a website that allows users to check the availability of international domain names. My approach was to do a simple whois lookup on each request, but I'm now realizing that there are pretty harsh daily or hourly limits, e.g.
"Allowed average daily response limit is set to 100 regarding one IP address."
Is there a way to work around this issue? How do all these sites offer this kind of service, without running into problems with the query limits?
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I'm interested in getting access to a full WHOIS database in order to expand on a domain-profile project I'm working on. I know ARIN provides this database only to non-commercial researchers and every WHOIS provider I know of (including ARIN itself) has rate-limiting.
I also know, however, some commercial services that already exist (like the registrant lookup section of domaintools.com, which can search for domains by registrant name) which are impossible unless the site has direct access to a cached copy of the WHOIS database.
Any idea how they got ahold of their data?
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How would you get the WHOIS information to provide in the first place?
Note that I'm not actually intending to do this; I'm just interested in how it would work!
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Is there a relatively simple way in Java to check if a domain is available or not?
I need a reliable method, so only checking if the connection can be made is not enough.
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Anyone can do WHOIS lookups through the whois command line tool or web based interfaces direct from the registrar but there are query limits which make commercial use difficult e.g. bulk checking of expiry dates on all your existing domains is not possible once you have more than x domains, where x is whatever the WHOIS server query limit is.
Are there any providers of WHOIS APIs?
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Not only easy ones like .com or .net, but also, .co.uk, .fr, .gov.rw ... ?
Should I really make a huge mapping "tld to relevant whois server", or is there an easier way ?
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is there a way to periodically download the entire whois database for all the domain names? I am writing a program that needs to check the domain age and find the registrant given an input of a domain name, I need to do it very quickly.
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Is there a way to periodically download the entire whois database? I need to do some analysis on the whois data for as many domain names as possible, preferably of all the active domain names out there. I'm looking for either free or commercial solution.
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I'm trying to check domain name availability from my Rails app. Is there a good (free) API to do this with?
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I'm trying to make a desktop application checking whois records among other things and I've found a few lists mapping top-level domains to whois servers. They work usually, but sometimes information has to be found on a different whois server. For example while the main server for com domains is whois.markmonitor.com, about.com has to be fetched from "corporatedomains". How do I check which whois server should I query for a certain domain?
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