Whois

Whois is a comprehensive domain intelligence and domain name information platform that provides critical data about internet domains, their ownership, registration details, and infrastructure configuration. This service enables users to query and retrieve essential information about domain names through both WHOIS protocol data and the modern RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) standard.

Category	Threat intelligence
Direction	Query source
Sign-in	No Authentication
Query languages	SQLite
Tables	2
Query templates	19
Website	whois.com

Before you start

Whois needs no credentials — Huntbase queries it without signing in.

Connect Whois

1. Go to Connections and click New connection, or click New connection on the Whois product page.
2. On Product, pick Whois and choose the Owner.
3. On Details, give the connection a Name and, optionally, a Description.
4. On Connect, fill in the settings and credentials described below.
5. On Verify, review the summary and click Create & check.

For everything else on the setup page — saving a draft, I'll do this later, and what each check result means — see Connections.

Credentials

The only Method is No Authentication. Enter a Credential label (for example Production), then fill in:

No fields — choose this method to connect without credentials.

Query it

Once connected, Whois can serve these languages in a query tab, and Scout can use it when you ask in Auto:

Language	Use it for
SQLite	SQL over the 2 tables listed below, alongside every other connected source.

Example: SQLite

Get name server information — Retrieve the name servers associated with a domain via WHOIS lookup.

select
  domain,
  name_servers
from
  whois_domain
where
  domain = {{domain}};

Whois ships with 19 query templates. Find them in Library › Queries — see Query templates.

Tables

Whois adds 2 tables. Browse their columns from Schema in the query bar's ⋯ menu.

All 2 tables

Table	Contains
rdap_domain	RDAP domain information including expiration, DNS servers and contact details.
whois_domain	WHOIS domain information including expiration, DNS servers and contact details.

Next steps

• Connections — health, credentials and settings after you connect
• Query languages — syntax, parameters and time ranges
• Chatting with Scout — ask questions without writing a query
• All integrations — the rest of the catalog