Get WHOIS records from command-line
whois is generally a query to get information about domain name which returns information about the site owner, administrative and technical contacts. In Linux PCs the whois command comes with the distribution mostly and for windows users there is no such option. The users need to depend on popular web applications like whois.net, whois domaintools etc to get the job done. WhoisCL simple command-line utility that helps you to query whois servers to get information about a registered domain.
WhoisCL is capable of connecting to the right WHOIS server according to the top-level domain name, and retrieve the WHOIS record of that domain. This application works fine with Windows 2000/XP and you need to configure your firewall to open the port 43 to make this utility work fine.
Usage:
WhoisCL [-r] Domain
[-r]
If you specify this option, the top remark lines of the WHOIS record are automatically removed.Domain
Domain name.Examples:
WhoisCL microsoft.com
WhoisCL -r google.com
WhoisCL w3c.org
The tool has got options to create your own WHOIS servers list to override the default servers just by placing whois-servers.txt’ which contains the respective servers in the same folder of WhoisCL.exe. Read more and download this tool here at this [link].
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