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We are excited to announce that Snowflake users can now request access to WHOIS Database Download’s quarterly gTLD and ccTLD files on the platform, available in three formats:

• Simple: The simple CSV file contains the domain name, registrar name and email address, WHOIS and name servers, creation and expiration dates, and registrant and administrative contact details.

• Regular: The regular CSV file contains all the fields in the Simple file, along with information about the billing, technical, and zone contacts.

• Full: This file format contains all fields in the Simple file, in addition to the raw text from the WHOIS registry and registrar.

We’re thrilled to announce that WHOIS queries can now be processed through POST requests in addition to the current HTTP GET request method. This new capability offers a more secure way to access domain registration information.

Using POST requests significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized access to API keys, as they encrypt the HTTP message body, including the API key. To illustrate, here is an example of a POST request.

Dear WHOIS API Customers,

We’re proud to share that for over a decade, our commitment to maintaining and enhancing the WHOIS API has been unwavering. Continual improvement is at the core of our service philosophy, and we make regular updates to ensure our APIs meet the highest standards of performance, accuracy, and security.

In just the last year, we’ve implemented several enhancements, including:

Aside from the most obvious and common WHOIS data use case—determining “who is” behind a domain—each WHOIS record can help reveal more details about a domain.

PowerShell is a powerful cross-platform interpreter for scripting that can be used for automating the tasks. On Windows systems in particular, it is the primary and native tool for system administration, data processing, and many more activities. The possibilities range from simple scripts to implement command-line solutions to large, object-oriented tasks. 

This blog is an invitation to use WhoisAPI’s services in PowerShell. This consists of using RESTful APIs, illustrating the power of the actual services, especially in security and domainer applications. The presentation is aimed at beginners with a very basic background in programming, and no background in PowerShell is assumed. However, experts of PowerShell who have not used RESTful APIs yet, and experts with a UNIX background making their first steps with PowerShell may also find it useful.