Free and easy .uk whois client

[aZooZa]

Here's a freebie for those who'd like a quick and easy .uk whois lookup on their Windows desktop:

http://files.dalehubbard.com/wuk.zip

Enjoy!

 

[philipp]

Here's a freebie for those who'd like a quick and easy .uk whois lookup on their Windows desktop

Yebbut if you're using 'doze, it's even easier to open cmd and do:

telnet whois.nic.uk 43

HTH,

P.

 

[aZooZa]

Yebbut if you're using 'doze, it's even easier to open cmd and do:

telnet whois.nic.uk 43

HTH,

P.

Easier than:

wuk dom.co.uk?

And your domain is within the command line? No it's not. You're opening a telnet session and the query is expected after that.

Nahh... it don't help. Many more keystrokes required.

But thanks!

 

[retired_member9]

Surely someone will find it useful, but there are so many proper command line whois clients for Windoze.. so there is no need for wheel reinvention.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Network-Information/Wwhois.shtml
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/whoiscl.html

or better... get Linux.

 

[aZooZa]

Surely someone will find it useful, but there are so many proper command line whois clients for Windoze.. so there is no need for wheel reinvention.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Network-Information/Wwhois.shtml
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/whoiscl.html

or better... get Linux.

Indeed so Vizzy. But take into account the 'gobbledegook" factor - and when did YOU last give something away free?

 

[philipp]

Talking about WHOIS clients (never understood why it has to be capitalised btw), has anyone see whois -c <country-code>? Pretty neat, although I'm not sure if it's only in FreeBSD.

P.

 

[Admin]

Thanks for posting it Azooza, I am sure some members will find it useful but don't feel bad if they don't all, most people here will be doing bulk WHOIS lookups not single ones.

The forum also has a WHOIS option:
www.acorndomains.co.uk/whois.php

that allows multiple lookups.

 

[aquanuke]

The forum also has a WHOIS option:
www.acorndomains.co.uk/whois.php

that allows multiple lookups.

Alan your script got a little busted when nom changed the IP addy ie 62.xx.xx.xx you need to change it to http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=domain.co.uk

ie the bit that says 'whois' after you make a query

 

[aZooZa]

Thanks for posting it Azooza, I am sure some members will find it useful but don't feel bad if they don't all, most people here will be doing bulk WHOIS lookups not single ones.

The forum also has a WHOIS option:
www.acorndomains.co.uk/whois.php

that allows multiple lookups.

That's okay, I don't feel bad at all. Some of the comments are quite amusing actually.

 

[SF]

Thanks aZooZa for your time in developing us a FREE product!

 

[aZooZa]

Thanks aZooZa for your time in developing us a FREE product!

Thanks Sean. More stuff coming.

 

[meinthecorner]

I'm not knocking anybody who is prepared to spend time developing free software, top man in my opinion.

However my whois lookup consists of a desk top short cut to http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query= and type the name at the end of the address bar. :mrgreen:

 

[cmrule]

Thanks for posting it Azooza, I am sure some members will find it useful but don't feel bad if they don't all, most people here will be doing bulk WHOIS lookups not single ones.

The forum also has a WHOIS option:
www.acorndomains.co.uk/whois.php

that allows multiple lookups.

This isn't very accurate for domains that have recently be registered, i.e. in the last 24 hours.

 

[aZooZa]

This isn't very accurate for domains that have recently be registered, i.e. in the last 24 hours.

Yes, the trouble can be that http requests can yield cached results, and *bulk* queries either by http or tcp can suffer timeouts. Not an exact science, unless you get a single port 43 answerback which is generally accurate to the second.