For Sale Whois from your Windows Prompt

[Nexus]

In case anyone wanted to do this, and hadn't seen this quickie app.

Scroll to the bottom of this page:
http://www.saeven.net/sware/

Description:

From the page: Just like the stock linux whois 1.3, but for win32. Uses standard syntax, -h for server, and -p for port. Compatible with the rfc954 system. It's free!

http://www.saeven.net/sware/whois.zip 31k

Just tuck it in your System32 directory inside your Windows folder, and from then on, its available from your prompt (type "cmd" or "command" from hitting START>RUN on Windows2k and WinME/98/95 respectively).

> whois yourdomainhere.com

If you want to grab multiple Whois results, you can even create a BAT file (eg. grabwhois.bat), and stick the following inside:

echo ##### S T A R T ###### >>whois.txt
whois earth.com >>whois.txt
echo ###################### >>whois.txt
echo ###################### >>whois.txt
whois wind.com >>whois.txt
echo ###################### >>whois.txt
echo ###################### >>whois.txt
whois fire.com >>whois.txt
echo ###################### >>whois.txt
echo ###################### >>whois.txt
echo ####### E N D ######## >>whois.txt

A file will appear in the same directory as your BAT file, with all the Whois results you requested. Of course, you can get overzealous and run into query limits and get yourself snowed, but there you go.

Especially nice is being able to do this:
> whois -h whois.godaddy.com yourdomainhere.com //find out what records a particular whois server uses

Best Regards,
~ Nexus

 

[adill420]

very nice! thanks for the link!

 

[peter]

sweet! thanks

 

[Frontline]

Handy little tool, thanks for the heads up.

 

[timechange.com]

Any particular WHOIS server recommendations?

 

[adill420]

whois.crsnic.net