#WHOIS

Get information about a website.

Usage: whois [OPTION]… OBJECT…

  -h HOST, --host HOST   connect to server HOST
  
  -p PORT, --port PORT   connect to PORT
  
  -H                     hide legal disclaimers
  
  --verbose        explain what is being done
  
  --help           display this help and exit
  
  --version        output version information and exit

These flags are supported by whois.ripe.net and some RIPE-like servers:

  -l                     find the one level less specific match
  
  -L                     find all levels less specific matches
  
  -m                     find all one level more specific matches
  
  -M                     find all levels of more specific matches
 
  -c                     find the smallest match containing a mnt-irt attribute
 
  -x                     exact match

  -b                     return brief IP address ranges with abuse contact
   
  -B                     turn off object filtering (show email addresses)
   
  -G                     turn off grouping of associated objects
   
  -d                     return DNS reverse delegation objects too
   
  -i ATTR[,ATTR]...      do an inverse look-up for specified ATTRibutes
   
  -T TYPE[,TYPE]...      only look for objects of TYPE
   
  -K                     only primary keys are returned
   
  -r                     turn off recursive look-ups for contact information

  -R                     force to show local copy of the domain object even if it contains referral

  -a                     also search all the mirrored databases

  -s SOURCE[,SOURCE]...  search the database mirrored from SOURCE
 
  -g SOURCE:FIRST-LAST   find updates from SOURCE from serial FIRST to LAST

  -t TYPE                request template for object of TYPE

  -v TYPE                request verbose template for object of TYPE
 
  -q [version|sources|types]  query specified server info