Whois from the console? Why not!

Posted on 24 March 2018 by Linux

Not every novice admin knows that he can do much to facilitate the work of verifying if a domain is valid and has not expired or that directs dns records.

Often you have to go to the page specially designed for such domains en, https://www.dns.pl/cgi-bin/whois.pl

But what if you can do it faster and easier from the server console, without rewriting CAPTCHA.

Below a very simple way to install on each server whois.

For Debian / Ubuntu are installing using the command console release:

apt-get install whois

1	apt-get install whois

CentOS system

yum install whois

1	yum install whois

The method of use is also very easy, We issue the following command in the console:

whois nazwadomeny.pl

For example:

whois serwerweb.pl

1	whois serwerweb.pl

Below an example of the result:

[root@node ~]# whois serwerweb.pl
[Querying whois.dns.pl]
[whois.dns.pl]

DOMAIN NAME:           serwerweb.pl
registrant type:       individual
nameservers:           ns1.serwerweb.pl. [94.130.246.172]
                       ns2.serwerweb.pl. [94.130.246.172]
created:               2017.11.08 17:34:20
last modified:         2018.02.08 09:39:20
renewal date:          2018.11.08 17:34:20

no option

dnssec:                Unsigned

TECHNICAL CONTACT:
company: H88 S.A.
street: ul. Franklina Roosevelta 22
city: 60-829 Poznań
location: PL
phone:  +48.587327194
fax:  +48.587327196
last modified: 2017.05.23


REGISTRAR:
Consulting Service Sp. z o.o.
ul. Domaniewska 35A lok.1B
02-672 Warszawa
Polska/Poland
+48.221238080
domeny@ConsultingService.pl

WHOIS database responses: http://www.dns.pl/english/opiskomunikatow_en.html

WHOIS displays data with a delay not exceeding 15 minutes in relation to the .pl Registry system
Registrant data available at http://dns.pl/cgi-bin/en_whois.pl

[root@node ~]# whois serwerweb.pl

[Querying whois.dns.pl]

[whois.dns.pl]

DOMAIN NAME: serwerweb.pl

registrant type: individual

nameservers: ns1.serwerweb.pl. [94.130.246.172]

ns2.serwerweb.pl. [94.130.246.172]

created: 2017.11.08 17:34:20

last modified: 2018.02.08 09:39:20

renewal date: 2018.11.08 17:34:20

no option

dnssec: Unsigned

TECHNICAL CONTACT:

company: H88 S.A.

street: ul. Franklina Roosevelta 22

city: 60-829 Poznań

location: PL

phone: +48.587327194

fax: +48.587327196

last modified: 2017.05.23

REGISTRAR:

Consulting Service Sp. z o.o.

ul. Domaniewska 35A lok.1B

02-672 Warszawa

Polska/Poland

+48.221238080

domeny@ConsultingService.pl

WHOIS database responses: http://www.dns.pl/english/opiskomunikatow_en.html

WHOIS displays data with a delay not exceeding 15 minutes in relation to the .pl Registry system

Registrant data available at http://dns.pl/cgi-bin/en_whois.pl

So what can we learn?

virtually everything!

DOMAIN NAME: serwerweb.pl – OUR DOMAIN NAME
registrant type: individual – TYPE IN WHO HAS BEEN REGISTERED DOMAIN IS IT INDIVIDUAL OR COMPANY
nameservers: ns1.serwerweb.pl. [94.130.246.172] – DNS SERVER attributable TO THE DOMAIN
ns2.serwerweb.pl. [94.130.246.172] – DNS SERVER attributable TO THE DOMAIN
created: 2017.11.08 17:34:20 – WHEN BEEN REGISTERED DOMAIN
last modified: 2018.02.08 09:39:20 – LAST MODIFY ZONE DNS, Tumescent LAST CHANGE NP DNS.
renewal date: 2018.11.08 17:34:20 – DATE OF RENEWAL OF DOMAIN DOMAIN -When EXTINGUISHES.

As you can see, we can learn quite a lot of these are the basics that will help us to work.

I described the basic issues, as you can see the full list of what we will get is still about the company that registered the domain, and we will contact Technical recorder.