NAME

Net::Whois::Raw - Perl extension for unparsed raw whois information

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Whois::Raw;

$s = whois('perl.com');
$s = whois('funet.fi');
$s = whois('yahoo.co.uk');

DESCRIPTION

Net::Whois::Raw queries NetworkSolutions and follows the Registrar: answer for ORG, EDU, COM and NET domains. For other TLDs it uses the whois-servers.net namespace. ($TLD.whois-servers.net).

AUTHOR

Ariel Brosh, schop@cpan.org, Inspired by jwhois.pl available on the net.

Peter Chow, peter@interq.or.jp, Corrections. (See below)

MODIFICATIONS

• Fixed regular expression to match hyphens. (Peter Chow, peter@interq.or.jp)

• Added support for Tonga TLD. (.to) (Peter Chow, peter@interq.or.jp)

CLARIFICATION

As NetworkSolutions got most of the domains of InterNic as legacy, we start by querying their server, as this way one whois query would be sufficient for many domains. Starting at whois.internic.net or whois.crsnic.net will result in always two requests in any case.

SEE ALSO

perl(1), Net::Whois.