Are there alternatives to the 'who.is' website? [closed]

Question

I'm looking for alternatives to who.is. I tried the following Linux commands:

• host -a
• dig example.nl ANY
• nslookup example.nl -all

But none display all the information, just as in who.is website, DNS records and all.

I would love a all-in-one Linux command, that does what who.is does. But, a website is also accepted.

For me, searching for .com works fine, with .nl I get the following message:

whois.domain-registry.nl: Server too busy, try again later

On multiple .nl websites. Oddly enough searching for google.nl works fine?

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The whois commandline does not get all the information, like who.is, and also, it uses the same site to get all the information:

> whois example.nl 
> whois.domain-registry.nl: Server too busy, try again later

Meaning same error ^

Answer 1

What do you expect the who.is website and every other website offering a whois mechanism is doing behind the scenes? There'll usually be some caching but they're just using the whois protocol to talk to domain registries. That is to say if you're getting a "Server too busy, try again later" error locally, you'll get it remotely too.

You're both talking to the same server that's too busy.

That said, the official registry for a tld usually has their own internal whois web service. That is the case for the .nl tld: https://www.sidn.nl/?language_id=2 This is currently accepting queries.

In the case of other domains, Googling for <tld> registry usually gets you to somewhere you can "check" to see if a domain is available, and if not, view the registrant details.

Answer 2

Possible the whois commandline tool?

according to the wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS

Most early web-based WHOIS clients were merely front-ends to a command-line client, where the resulting output just gets displayed on a web page with little, if any, clean-up or formatting.