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Show HN: ZipWhois: Simple JSON Whois API and Domain API (zipwhois.com)
6 points by holoiii 4190 days ago
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Nice! I recently built a whois "endpoint" at http://whois.datasnitch.co.uk/ You can request a domain whois just by adding the name in the URI, e.g.: http://whois.datasnitch.co.uk/fluffcomputing.com

The idea is to be able to use whois from my Windows command line as I do from Linux or OS X, so I wrote a quick and dirty Powershell script for that: https://gist.github.com/pjperez/d1af6c697a6997d07ed3

Works like a charm from Powershell, looks like shit with a browser :)

How where you able to accurately parse multiple registrar's whois data (or is that a trade secret) since they all add disclaimers in odd places?

Although, my contact data from "silvenga.com" wasn't parse correctly.