The whois service is a service where the general public can look up and find registered information about a domain name. The whois service has largely been phased out in favour of the public service, and also returns less data.
Access
The service is available at:
Host: whois.norid.no Port: 43
As protection against potential abuse, the whois service has a built-in mechanism for rate limiting. This limits the number of queries, so you cannot submit a large number of queries at the same time.
Testing
The service is available at:
Host: whois.test.norid.no
Port: 43
Example of use (requires that you have a whois client installed):
whois -h whois.test.norid.no draupne.noPresents the data registered for the domain name draupne.no.
If you are looking up an IDN domain, you must specify the appropriate UTF-8 character set:
whois -h whois.test.norid.no -- -c utf-8 ole-žóòôöšŧüžon-æøå.noPresents the data registered for the domain name ole-žóòôöšŧüžon-æøå.no.
Technical documentation
| Interface document for whois and DAS |
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| Updated: 2018-08-10: Rev. 10e1 with adjusted pretext, see Document History for description 2018-05-23: Rev. 9e1 for new data model and GDPR, see Document History for description |
| Description: This document describes the interface for both whois and DAS (Domain Availability Service). |
| Document: Download Whois DAS Interface Specification v10e1 (PDF, 220KB) |