The whois and the jwhois commands work pretty much the same way. The jwhois command is newer, more configurable, and maybe even faster than whois. Both query WHOIS servers from the Linux command line.

A modern, high-performance Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing domain and IP address lookup services using both traditional Whois and modern RDAP protocols. whoismcp/ ├── src/whoismcp/ # ...

WhoIs Information As A Ranking Factor: Our Verdict There’s no evidence that Google ever used domain privacy protection as a ranking factor. Perhaps they planned to back in 2005 when they first ...

The WHOIS RESTful service is optimized for structured querying in contrast to it's text-based origin implementing the WHOIS service responding on port 43, With the introduction of the registrar model, ...

Whois API client library for Python. Contribute to whois-api-llc/whois-api-py development by creating an account on GitHub.

The WHOIS protocol dates back to the early 1980s when it was standardized, but the first WHOIS service was actually set up on ARPANET, the precursor of the internet.

The Whois service that provides information about network names and numbers has outlived its usefulness, but previous attempts to replace it haven't been successful. The authors outline the reasons it ...