Automated Whois dump?

Is there a way to generate a Whois report for a list of domain names
all at once?

How does Whois work, anyway? Is the information stored in some central
location or does each registrar keep their own information?


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LurfysMa wrote:

> Is there a way to generate a Whois report for a list of domain names
> all at once?

Simple bash script to do it:

#!/bin/bash
for x in example.com example.org example.net
do whois $x >> myDumpFile
done


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LurfysMa wrote:

> Is there a way to generate a Whois report for a list of domain names
> all at once?
>
> How does Whois work, anyway? Is the information stored in some central
> location or does each registrar keep their own information?
>
>


perl -ne 'print `whois $_`' domainsfile


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On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 0906 +0100, David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>LurfysMa wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to generate a Whois report for a list of domain names
>> all at once?
>
>Simple bash script to do it:
>
>#!/bin/bash
>for x in example.com example.org example.net
>do whois $x >> myDumpFile
>done

Bash runs under unix, right? I use Windows. But the suggestion is a
good one. I'll look into scripts. Unless someone knows of a whois
service that does it already or a registrar that has it built in.

Thanks

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On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 1009 +0100, Brian Wakem <no@email.com> wrote:

>LurfysMa wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to generate a Whois report for a list of domain names
>> all at once?
>>
>> How does Whois work, anyway? Is the information stored in some central
>> location or does each registrar keep their own information?
>>
>>
>
>
>perl -ne 'print `whois $_`' domainsfile

It looks like Perl is available for Windows. I have some programming
experience. Can you recommend someplace where I can lesrn enough Perl
to write simple scripts like the example you provided?

Thanks

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LurfysMa wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 1009 +0100, Brian Wakem <no@email.com> wrote:
>
>>LurfysMa wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to generate a Whois report for a list of domain names
>>> all at once?
>>>
>>> How does Whois work, anyway? Is the information stored in some central
>>> location or does each registrar keep their own information?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>perl -ne 'print `whois $_`' domainsfile
>
> It looks like Perl is available for Windows. I have some programming
> experience. Can you recommend someplace where I can lesrn enough Perl
> to write simple scripts like the example you provided?
>
> Thanks


Download at http://activestate.com/
Learn at http://learn.perl.org/ or buy a book.

I should point out though that the one-liner I gave will only work if you
have whois installed and in your path. I'm not sure if this is possible on
windows.



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LurfysMa wrote:

> Bash runs under unix, right?

Yes

> I use Windows.

It runs under Windows too. http://www.cygwin.com/


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