🌐 whois-cli

A simple command line whois client

Features

• Query the whois server and display the results in a table
• Output the result in JSON format
• Specifiable whois server to query - EXPERIMENTAL

Usage

NAME:
   whois - whois CLI

USAGE:
   whois [global options] command [command options] DOMAIN SERVERS...

VERSION:
   unknown-unknown

DESCRIPTION:
   A whois command line client, to query domain owner information and retrieve results.

COMMANDS:
   help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --json, -j     Output in JSON format (default: false)
   --help, -h     show help (default: false)
   --version, -v  print the version (default: false)

Specifying a domain name as an argument, owner information for that domain will be displayed.

$ whois github.com
::
:: DOMAIN
::
       ITEM      |             VALUE
-----------------+---------------------------------
  ID             | 1264983250_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
  Domain         | github.com
  Punycode       | github.com
  Name           | github
  Extension      | com
  WhoisServer    | whois.markmonitor.com
  Status         | clientdeleteprohibited
                 | clienttransferprohibited
                 | clientupdateprohibited
  NameServers    | dns1.p08.nsone.net
                 | dns2.p08.nsone.net
                 | dns3.p08.nsone.net
                 | dns4.p08.nsone.net
                 | ns-1283.awsdns-32.org
                 | ns-1707.awsdns-21.co.uk
                 | ns-421.awsdns-52.com
                 | ns-520.awsdns-01.net
  DNSSec         | false
  CreatedDate    | 2007-10-09T18:20:50Z
  UpdatedDate    | 2022-09-07T09:10:44Z
  ExpirationDate | 2024-10-09T18:20:50Z

::
:: REGISTRAR
::
     ITEM     |              VALUE
--------------+----------------------------------
  ID          |                             292
  Name        | MarkMonitor Inc.
  Phone       | +1.2086851750
  Email       | abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com
  ReferralURL | http://www.markmonitor.com

EXPERIMENTAL: By specifying the host name after the second argument, you can change the whois server to query.

whois DOMAIN SERVERS...

If you run it with the -j option, the results will be output in JSON format.

$ whois -j github.com

{
  "domain": {
    "id": "1264983250_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN",
    "domain": "github.com",
    "punycode": "github.com",
    "name": "github",
    "extension": "com",
    "whois_server": "whois.markmonitor.com",
    "status": [
      "clientdeleteprohibited",
      "clienttransferprohibited",
      "clientupdateprohibited"
    ],
    ...
}

Installation

You can download the executable binaries from the release page

latest release

To build from source, run the following:

go install github.com/sheepla/whois-cli@latest

License

Apache 2.0

Thanks

• harakeishi/whris - the project that inspired
• likexian/whois - the client library for whois
• likexian/whois-parser - the library to parse raw whois data

Author

sheepla