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Best Whois site? Which one are you using?
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I do It's much faster than visiting any ad bloated whois website.
That's the same as the command line!
Most of the time I use domaintools, but since they cache records I sometimes use whois.exe instead.
Typically I use the command line, although domaintools.com/who.is/others come in handy when certain WHOIS servers have annoying restrictions.
e.g .nl and their limit of 15 whois requests per day
viewdns.info
http://urldata.net
I recently launched my own Whois tool/client at http://gwhois.org/.
It always performs a live lookup and shows you each server and their results in the Whois chain.
I like it!
Good job
Who.is
I use who.is.
About who.is, I am not too fond of their $30 extortion fee for removing whois data.
lowendwho.is
i use who.is for domain and ip
That's why you should only use a Whois tool/website that doesn't cache data, like mine: http://gwhois.org/
http://who.cc/
Simple enough.
http://www.internic.net/whois.html
If your script gets popular you query a whois database X times in X minutes you will get banned(cant remember the exact figures). I think that's why they cache.
They cache to cash
If it was for throttling reasons they would only need to keep the latest entry.
been using domaintools since it was whois.sc - more than 10 years
Try my creation: Whois : Simplified - https://whois.silvenga.com.
I've found that querying
whois -h [TLD].whois-servers.net
allows for many queries. Directly querying whois for .org will result in rate-limiting, but whois-servers.net (accessing via whois -h) seems to go through without limit.I don't use it much...just periodically when trying to brainstorm domains.
usually network-tools.com because I need more than just the whois information.
whois.com
whoisxy.com and whois.sc.
who.is
im using whois.com and networktools.web.id/#!/whois/
Normally who.is but then sometimes going for the results for google on who.is services
Easywhois.com and who.is as well
Ping.eu
I use domaintools