Whos - removes spam from whois results

Ruby
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Quick little command-line tool so you can use whois from the command
line without getting spammed with boilerplate legal/marketing BS.

Summary

  • wraps whois and removes the registrar boilerplate legal/marketing
    spam BS
  • pass in a FQDN and it checks it
  • pass in a plain name (no dots) and it checks for .com,.net,.org,etc.

Install

gem install whos

Optional Install

echo “alias whois=whos” >> ~/.bash_profile

Usage

whos foo.com - runs whois foo.com. If it is available, or not, it
says so in a single line.

whos -v foo.com - If foo.com is not available, it shows you the
whois response, minus the boilerplate legal/marketing registrar text

whos foo - runs whos foo.com then whos foo.com then whos foo.net then whos foo.org etc.

whos -o foo.com - If foo.com is taken, opens http://foo.com in a
browser

Multiple args work as expected.

Got more spam?

Fork http://github.com/alexch/whos on github, add a file to the spam
folder, run rake install, then send me a pull request

Credits

Written in a fit of pique by Alex C. http://alexch.github.com