whois Command Examples

Command-line client for the WHOIS (RFC 3912) protocol. More information: https://github.com/rfc1036/whois.

• Get information about a domain name:

whois {{example.com}}

• Get information about an IP address:

whois {{8.8.8.8}}

• Get abuse contact for an IP address:

whois -b {{8.8.8.8}}