Looking for W7 whois freeware

Sun May 13 05:19:42 UTC 2012

At 16:57 10/05/2012 -0400, Scott Berkman wrote:

I am looking for a simple Windows GUI s/w for a secretary to use to do 
whois lookups for IP and ASNs and to easily copy/paste the 
results.  Amazing that there is no such beast.

-Hank

>I use Launchy (a keystroke launcher similar to GnomeDo, Quicksilver, etc)
>and it's Runner plugin with some bat scripts that reference the builtin
>whois DOS/CLI command to create my own.
>
>So for example, to look up an IP at ARIN I just hit my hotkey (Atl-Space)
>and type arin <tab> <IP> enter.  My bat script really just runs whois, sizes
>the command prompt window, and waits for user input before disappearing.
>
>I'm happy to share my scripts off list if you are interested.
>
>         -Scott
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank at efes.iucc.ac.il]
>Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:49 AM
>To: nanog at nanog.org
>Subject: Looking for W7 whois freeware
>
>I am looking for a Window 7 GUI utility that does raw whois - not the
>standard domain lookup, but rather allows me to specify and change the whois
>server I am talking to and allows me to customize the whois search string
>for IPs or ASNs or anything else a whois server will accept, like:
>"-B -G as378".
>
>I know of ezwhois but am looking for something better (for example - they
>don't have whois.ripe.net listed - one can add it but not save it).
>
>Thanks,
>Hank