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 https://whois-server-list.github.io/whois-server-list/2.2/whois-server-list.xml

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

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>

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:

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