PWHOIS(1)

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version 2.99.044 · 4 versions
, in fedora 43

🌸 PWHOIS(1) 🌸

okay so this is the manual page for pwhois — it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your system, and bestie, it's a whole vibe. it's giving "tiny script, big opinions". 💅

✨ NAME ✨

pwhois — get Whois information of domains and IP addresses. 🦋

💖 VERSION 💖

version 2.99044 — yes she's been around a while and she's still thriving.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

like. just run it. here's the whole moodboard:

pwhois perl.com
pwhois gnu.org
pwhois -s police.co.il
pwhois -c there.is.no.tld.called.foobar
pwhois yahoo.com whois.networksolutions.com
pwhois -T 10 funet.fi

etc etc..... (their words, not mine, and honestly? iconic.) ✨

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Just invoke with a domain name, optionally with a whois server name. that's it. that's the whole thing. you hand her a domain, she goes and asks the internet who owns it. 🕵️‍♀️

Switches:

  • -s — attempt to strip the copyright message or disclaimer. bye bye boilerplate 👋
  • -c — attempts to return an empty answer for failed searches. no drama, no tears, just nothing 🫥
  • -e — forces die if connection rate to server have been exceeded. she will literally perish 💀 (dramatic but that's what it says)
  • -T — set timeout for connection attempts ⏳
  • -t — enables caching. remember things, save time, self care 🧠✨
  • -a — specify an ip address that should be used as source address 🏠
  • -d — enables debugging messages. for when you need to see the receipts 🔍
  • -F — returns results of the first query of recursive whois requests 🥇
  • -L — returns results of the last query of recursive whois requests — and this is the default ⭐
  • -A — returns results of the all queries of recursive whois requests 🎉 all of them. the whole group chat.

💫 NAME 💫

pwhois — Perl written whois client 🐪

(yes, the NAME section shows up twice in the original and I'm not about to erase her history. she contains multitudes.)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Ariel Brosh schop@cpan.org — Walery Studennikov despair@cpan.org

Current Maintainer: Alexander Nalobin nalobin@cpan.org 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Net::Whois::Raw. — go look, bestie, it's right there.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Alexander Nalobin <alexander@nalobin.ru> 🌸

This software is copyright (c) 2002-2026 by Alexander Nalobin.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. fr fr, go wild, it's free 💖

also real talk: the Perl underneath is v5.42.3, this page is dated 2026-10-11, and that's the whole manual. go whois something, you ate. 💅✨
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