PWHOIS(1p)

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version 2.99043 · 2 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet pwhois — she gets you Whois information of domains and IP addresses. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

✨ VERSION ✨

version 2.99043 — yes she's on her 2.99043 era 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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..... no literally, etc etc, that's what it says and that's iconic 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

you just invoke her with a domain name, and optionally you can throw in a whois server name too. she's flexible like that.

Switches:

  • -s — attempt to strip the copyright message or disclaimer. bye bye legal text 👋
  • -c — attempts to return an empty answer for failed searches. nothing found? you get nothing. slay 💀
  • -e — forces die if connection rate to server have been exceeded. she will literally perish fr
  • -T — set timeout for connection attempts. give her a time limit ⏰
  • -t — enables caching. remembering things so she doesn't have to re-ask 🧠
  • -a — specify an ip address that should be used as source address. choose your own origin, main character energy ✨
  • -d — enables debugging messages. spill the tea about what's going on 🫖
  • -F — returns results of the first query of recursive whois requests. the first one. the origin story 🎬
  • -L — returns results of the last query of recursive whois requests. this one is (the default) btw, so if you don't pick anything she picks this for you 🥰
  • -A — returns results of the all queries of recursive whois requests. ALL of them. every last crumb 🍓

💅 NAME 💅

pwhois — Perl written whois client 🌈

(she has two NAME sections, she contains multitudes, don't question it)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Ariel Brosh schop@cpan.org and Walery Studennikov despair@cpan.org 💖

Current Maintainer: Alexander Nalobin nalobin@cpan.org 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Net::Whois::Raw.

(go read that one too, bestie, iykyk)

⭐ 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. free software?? we love a generous queen 💜

🌸 k that's the whole page!! one last thing before you go — this was rendered by perl v5.40.1 and dated 2026-03-27, and the manual page itself goes by PWHOIS(1p). bye bestie, go whois something 🫶✨

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