tldr/pages/common/whois.md

# whois

> 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}}`
whois: add page (#3552) 2019-11-12 03:00:57 +01:00			`# whois`

*: fix typos reported by Hunspell (#5848) Co-authored-by: marchersimon <50295997+marchersimon@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Seth Falco <seth@falco.fun> Co-authored-by: Patrice Denis <patricedenis@users.noreply.github.com> 2021-05-20 16:13:41 -04:00			`> Command-line client for the WHOIS (RFC 3912) protocol.`
whois: add page (#3552) 2019-11-12 03:00:57 +01:00			`> 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}}`