Quick beginners guide
There are two ways to search the APNIC Whois Database:
- Use the online whois search facility
- Query whois.apnic.net directly from the command line
Interpreting the output of a whois search
A typical search returns objects in the following form:
<start of line> <attribute name> <:> <whitespace><attribute data> <end of line>| Name of attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Notify | This attribute contains an email address to be notified by the database when the object itself changes. It is not the email address of someone to be notified when a machine is troublesome. Frequently this has dbmon@apnic.net in here, which is used by APNIC internally. |
| Changes | This attribute contains an email address and the date of who and when the database object was last updated. For assignments made by APNIC, this is usually hostmaster@apnic.net, indicating that the APNIC hostmaster made the assignment. Please do not send spam complaints to this address; a full explanation is available from the spam@apnic.net autoresponder. |
| Source | This attribute contains the symbolic name of the database from which the data was obtained. The whois server performs the query on a number of databases, and thus can return multiple matches for the same IP range.
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Need help?
Download the Whois Manual (
, 2.97MB) for more information on how to search the APNIC Whois Database).