Documentation for WhoisXML API data download products

List of available documents

Quarterly WHOIS database downloads

• Quarterly GTLD WHOIS Database Reference Manual, ver. 2.21, last updated: 2023-09-12.
• Notes for particular gTLD database releases
• Quarterly CCTLD WHOIS Database Reference Manual, ver. 2.20, last updated: 2023-09-12.
• Notes for particular ccTLD database releases
• Quarterly Incremental WHOIS Data Manual, ver. 1.5, last updated: 2022-04-11.

Daily WHOIS database updates

• Daily Domain Name Whois Updates Reference Manual (gTLDs), ver. 4.0, last updated: 2023-09-13.
• Daily Domain Name Whois Updates Reference Manual (ccTLDs), ver. 2.24., last updated: 2023-09-13.

Zone files

• Zone files reference manual, ver. 1.2., last updated: 2019-05-31.

FTP manual

• FTP manual, ver. 1.0, last updated: 2018-06-11.

Technical blogs and other useful technical documents

• Setting up a WHOIS database from WHOIS XML API data
  (Mainly about MySQL, also about MongoDB.)
• Using the WhoDat Analytics Tool with WhoisXML API Data
  (Describes how to download data and load them into this tool. As WhoDat is based on ElasticSearch, the document is also useful for setting up and maintaining an ElasticSearch-based WHOIS database.)
• Setting up an IP Netblocks WHOIS database in MySQL
• A blog with examples of using IP Netblocks WHOIS data with MongoDB or python
• Using BASH and other Linux tools on Windows 10 for processing Whois data

Software downloads with docs

https://github.com/whois-api-llc/whois_database_download_support

• downloading data from WhoisXML API databases,
• setting up and maintaining WHOIS,IP Netblocks WHOIS, or Webiste Contacts and Categories databases using the downloaded data,
• converting data between formats.

Other documents