Summary
- wraps
whois
and removes the registrar boilerplate legal/marketing spam BS - pass in a FQDN and it checks it
- pass in a base name 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 Chaffee http://alexch.github.com
Possible Improvements
- shared spam db a la cheat
Release History
== 0.1.2 2011/08/07
First real release
== 0.1.3 2011/08/24
Added verisign spam
== 0.1.4 2011/09/01
Fixed "host" bug in --open option`` More spam