open-whois

An open and extensible python whois client that retreives the registration record for the domain name that you specify. It has in-built support for significantly more WHOIS formats than the Sysinternals whois client. It is intended to be a drop-in replacement for the Windows Sysinternals whois client.

Requirements

None. Just follow the instructions below.

Instructions

1. Download the latest version from the releases page
2. Drop whois.exe into C:\Program Files\open-whois or another location of your choosing.
3. Update your PATH environment variable with the new folder
4. Run from the command prompt:

C:\> whois.exe google.com

Build / Develop

open-whois is a compiled Python application using PyInstaller. It has been built and tested on Python 2.7.

> cd open-whois
> pyinstaller.exe --clean -y --onefile whois.py

License

Open-whois is available under the MIT license.

Contributing

Feel free to fork and submit pull requests or submit issues.

Sources

• Core library originally from joepie91 but using a forked version.
• Compiled using Pyinstaller - https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller