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>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:15:05 UTC <<<
...
Connection closed by foreign host.
Although the previous input has a pretty clear format, that format is regrettably non‐
standard. Different whois servers can and do send decidedly different output. For ex‐
ample, here are the first couple of results from the same search at the main French whois
server,
whois.nic.fr
:
%
telnet whois.nic.fr 43
telnet whois.nic.fr 43
Trying 192.134.4.18...
Connected to winter.nic.fr.
Escape character is '^]'.
Harold
Tous droits reserves par copyright.
Voir http://www.nic.fr/outils/dbcopyright.html
Rights restricted by copyright.
See http://www.nic.fr/outils/dbcopyright.html
person: Harold Potier
address: ARESTE
address: 154 Avenue Du Brezet
address: 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
address: France
phone: +33 4 73 42 67 67
fax-no: +33 4 73 42 67 67
nic-hdl: HP4305-FRNIC
mnt-by: OLEANE-NOC
changed: hostmaster@oleane.net 20000510
changed: migration-dbm@nic.fr 20001015
source: FRNIC
person: Harold Israel
address: LE PARADIS LATIN
address: 28 rue du Cardinal Lemoine
address: Paris, France 75005 FR
phone: +33 1 43252828
fax-no: +33 1 43296363
e-mail: info@cie.fr
nic-hdl: HI68-FRNIC
notify: info@cie.fr
changed: registrar@ns.il 19991011
changed: migration-dbm@nic.fr 20001015
source: FRNIC
Here each complete record is returned rather than just a list of sites. Other whois servers
may use still other formats. This protocol is not at all designed for machine processing.
You pretty much have to write new code to handle the output of each different whois
server. However, regardless of the output format, each response likely contains a
han‐
