Website Development Tools: Whois Domain Lookup


- Post was last modified on May 14th, 2009.
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Rolling out the next website development tool we bring you the Whois Domain Lookup tool. Which is simply a domain query tool. This tool allows you to enter either the domain or IP Address of a website and look at certain information such as where the domain is hosted, it's creation and expiry date and more. The tool gets this information from InterNIC Whois database which is updated daily. Information such as when the database for that domain was last updated is also avaliable to look at, however because we are using a standard whois database you will also see alot of random information such as terms/use of the database, we can't remove it as it's part of Internic's policy. But the information you want is at the top and easy to find!

Although we are using a pre-existing service I think being able to query IP addresses is a good feature for this tool, although it takes longer to enter it rather then the domain itself, being able to query both is a plus. Here is the Whois Domain tool interface:


Whois Domain Lookup

Simple enough really, you enter the domain or IP Address in the text field and then click Lookup, when you click it a box will suddenly appear with all of the information of the domain you entered, similar to this:


Whois Domain Lookup Query

All the information you care about will be at the top, because after that, all of the Internic Terms/Policy/If you do this you will die information follows. But like I said in future versions of this tool I'll be looking to either move to a different whois service or maybe build a custom one, but for now for version 1.0 of the tool we'll leave it at that.

Link to the Whois Domain Lookup Tool
What the hell is InterNIC

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