IDwhois is a free, small and efficient whois client running under Windows system that lets you retrieve registration information for domain names.

IDwhois is using the whois TCP-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet.

Unlike Web-based WHOIS clients, IDwhois will be design to be a free open source whois client.
IDwhois is capable to lookup more than 130 TLDs from all gTLDs (.COM, .NET, .ORG...) to most of the ccTLDs (.DE, .FR, .IT...).

IDwhois features :
- More than 130 TLDs to lookup
- Simple Windows stand alone whois client
- Integrated Parser
- Export results on .HTML, .CSV or .XML for fast reporting
- Import domain name list from a .TXT file
- XML Configuration files to add or modify TLD settings
- Multi thread WHOIS lookup
- WHOIS Request timer to avoid registrars/NICs time out
- multi-IP bridge lookup environment (avoid NIC black list)
- Moldable interface
- Rearrange the information in your whois results
- Tree view result
- Free online support by mail
- Frequent update

IDwhois ToDo list :
- Open source whois client
- WebService Live Update
- Proxy environment
- Domain names generator based on keywords
- Auto-alert on Domain Names Records Modification
- Implementation of registrars API
- Domain names registration via registrars API
- Domain names management via registrars API
- Graphics improvement
- XSL Transformations
- CSS templates
- Web based interface