jwhois is an improved Whois client capable of selecting Whois server to query based on a flexible configuration file using either regular expressions or CIDR blocks.
jwhois has support for IPv6 using the inet6-apps package from The Inner Net.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/jonasob/jwhois
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Developer: Jonas Öberg
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
jwhois is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| jwhois | Improved whois client |
| ipwhois | Retrieve and parse whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses |
| OpenRDAP | Command line RDAP client implementation in Go |
| quien | Terminal-based domain intelligence toolkit |
| rdapper | Simple console-based RDAP client |
| rdapper (TypeScript) | Node library that performs domain registration lookups |
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