Whois server list

This list is a manual and generated compilation of whois servers.

Sources are:

• [XML] The existing whois-server-list
• [IANA] IANA
• [PSL] Public Suffix List
• [WHOIS_RB] Ruby Whois
• [MD_WHOIS] Marco d'Itri's Whois list
• [PHOIS] php-whois
• [PHP_WHOIS] phpWhois

You can find the latest list online at http://whois-server-list.github.io/whois-server-list/3.0/whois-server-list.xml

We do also provide an online Whois API which uses this list.

IDN

Queries for IDN domain names should be done in the ACE representation.

Contribution

If you want to change anything to the list feel free to submit a pull request. Please include a <source>XML</source> to your contributed elements, otherwise they would get lost during next compilation. E.g.:

<whoisServer host="whois.example.net">
    <source>XML</source>
</whoisServer>

License and author

Markus Malkusch [email protected] is the author of this project. This project is free and under the WTFPL. However as this is a merged list out of differently licensed works, I have to put this project under all those licenses. These are the licenses and its corresponding sources:

Source	License
XML	WTFPL
MD_WHOIS	GPL-2
WHOIS_RB	MIT
PHP_WHOIS	GPL-2
PHOIS	MIT

Donations

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