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A Python package for retrieving WHOIS information of domains.

Features
 - Python wrapper for Linux "whois" command
 - simple interface to access parsed WHOIS data for a given domain
 - able to extract data for all the popular TLDs (com, org, net, biz, info, pl,
   jp, uk, nz, ...)
 - query a WHOIS server directly instead of going through an intermediate web
   service like many others do
 - works with Python 2.4+ and Python 3.x
 - all dates as datetime objects
 - possibility to cache results

WWW: https://pypi.org/project/whois/