# [Whois](https://whoisrb.org/) Parser

<tt>Whois Parser</tt> is a — pure Ruby — WHOIS parser.

This library was extracted from the Ruby <tt>Whois</tt> library], and made available as a standalone library. It can be used in combination with the Ruby Whois library to perform WHOIS queries and parse the response in Ruby, or as a standalone library to parse WHOIS records fetched previously and/or from different WHOIS clients.

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The [whois repository](https://github.com/weppos/whois) contains more information on how to use the library.


## More Information

- [Homepage](https://whoisrb.org/)
- RubyGems: [`whois`](https://rubygems.org/gems/whois) and [`whois-parser`](https://rubygems.org/gems/whois-parser)
- Issues: [`whois`](https://github.com/weppos/whois) and [`whois-parser`](https://github.com/weppos/whois-parser)
- [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/whois-ruby)


## Versioning

<tt>Whois::Parser</tt> uses [Semantic Versioning 2.0.0](http://semver.org)


## License

Copyright (c) 2009-2022 [Simone Carletti](https://simonecarletti.com/). This is Free Software distributed under the MIT license.