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QuickWho provides a rich array of information about specific Internet domains that surpasses other command-line, GUI or web-based "whois" tools. Are you curious about who owns a particular domain name? Do you want to contact them, or gather more information about them? QuickWho can help you with these tasks.
Why QuickWho?
Why QuickWho?
- Simple, pleasant-to-use interface.
- Save domain data to a file or print for later analysis.
- Display geographic data about domain as well as basic domain data.
- Thorough user documentation via the "Help" menu.
- Support for AppleScript
What's New
Version 3.3:
- Integration with Lion sandbox requirements.
- New engines for geolocation and map data.
- Other bug fixes.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later.
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later.
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| Downloads:2,270 |
| Version Downloads:120 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:17 Nov 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $24.99 |
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QuickWho provides a rich array of information about specific Internet domains that surpasses other command-line, GUI or web-based "whois" tools. Are you curious about who owns a particular domain name? Do you want to contact them, or gather more information about them? QuickWho can help you with these tasks.
Why QuickWho?
Why QuickWho?
- Simple, pleasant-to-use interface.
- Save domain data to a file or print for later analysis.
- Display geographic data about domain as well as basic domain data.
- Thorough user documentation via the "Help" menu.
- Support for AppleScript and Services.
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This new version is more stable in printing and also offers full support for printing (preview, save as PDF/PostScript). It also finally has a fully-native toolbar UI, making it more pleasant to use. I encourage you to give it a try for searching domain information.
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Caberlin reviewed on 19 Oct 2010
-Did not allow me to paste something in the search field while something was already in there.
-Crashed when I tried to run the software from a sub-folder inside of Applications
-Crashed after a printing
-Manual not very helpful for me
Although I have a registered version, I decided to get rid of it.
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I believe the program now does far more than the simple command-line whois tool, and previous versions of QuickWho: it offers a richer array of information about specific domains, in an easier-to-read format. I hope you'll give it a try.
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You can obviously do this quite well either from the shell, or from one MANY tools on the web if you don't want to use the shell. And most of those online tools give you better output; this doesn't even appear to support rwhois and other needed features.
Again, if you have paid this developer money...I am sorry you had to get ripped off.
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Your own example shows how flawed your program is: it shows the default output from whois.internic.net, which shows ALL the top level records that match "apple.com*". That's why there are all those odd "is.0wned.by" and "more.info.at" records in the junk output, because there's DNS glue for those hosts which start with "apple.com."
Your program does not provide any way to actually easily do a whois on apple.com! To do so, you have to "whois =apple.com" as the output text suggests, which will then tell you the correct whois server for the actual apple.com domain. You then need to run a whois on that server. Using your program, that means adding a whois server entry for whichever registrar apple.com is using.
So, let's look again at what you need to do to whois apple.com here:
1. Run the whois.
2. Be smart enough to look at the junk data that also includes apple.com and instructs you to use "=" to see all records.
3. Run the whois as "=apple.com".
4. Sort through the returned data, find the whois server for the registrar for the actual apple.com domain.
5. Add the registrar to the list if it's not there, which is isn't going to be for 99% of domains (if you can even do that, the program won't run for me)
6. Do a "whois apple.com" against the proper whois server.
This offers more capabilities than similar websites? Really?
That's a lot of steps. Again, there are a bunch of websites that offer FAR BETTER whois services for free. Just search the web for "whois". These sites know how to do things like actually do a whois on "apple.com" with a SINGLE lookup, rather than just give you useless raw whois output like this tool does.
Did I mention it's 176.6MB? (Which appears to be due to very poor understanding of the development environment and build process.)
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As mentioned in another comment, Apple already includes a GUI, not just command line, to this info and that is in the Network Utility program, which is in the Utilities folder. There is a tab for WHOIS and it is all you need.
Charge $2.00 for the convenience of using an app but this author was disingenuous.
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Network Utility is a handy little tool and it is free, but QuickWho has several features that Network Utility lacks:
-AppleScript support and Services integration--you can call it from other apps, i.e. select a domain name in Mail and get whois info from QuickWho's Services menu entry. Network Utility lacks this feature.
-You can save data to a file; Network Utility lacks this feature.
-Query more whois servers than Network Utility.
-The dual-pane tree/sourcelist layout makes browsing different whois servers more efficient: a new search fires every time a different server is selected.
I think QuickWho is definitely worth more than $2. Pricing of previous versions was as high as $25, which may have been too high. I've lowered the price to $12.95 in this version, and I think that's a fair price for what it offers.
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Give us some powerful features not available elsewhere if you're looking for $20.
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Zonder rated on 15 Apr 2011