WHOIS visiting your site?
Monday, November 30th, 2009I'm fond of WHOIS data for getting an idea who's visiting a site, though most WHOIS servers return data that's full of disclaimers and irrelevant data. Rather, I much prefer Team Cymru's batch WHOIS lookup server, whois.cymru.com.
First, extract your IPs:
Now send them to Cymru for processing:
Review whois.out at your leisure for detailed IP information. It's well-formatted, allowing for easily scripting against:
91 | 128.113.197.128 | 128.113.0.0/16 | US | arin | 1986-02-27 | RPI-AS - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 91 | 128.113.247.58 | 128.113.0.0/16 | US | arin | 1986-02-27 | RPI-AS - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 9121 | 88.232.9.77 | 88.232.0.0/17 | TR | ripencc | 2005-10-27 | TTNET TTnet Autonomous System 9 | 128.2.161.88 | 128.2.0.0/16 | US | arin | 1984-04-17 | CMU-ROUTER - Carnegie Mellon University 9136 | 91.186.50.28 | 91.186.32.0/19 | DE | ripencc | 2006-11-07 | WOBCOM WOBCOM GmbH - www.wobcom.de 9143 | 212.203.31.1 | 212.203.0.0/19 | NL | ripencc | 2000-08-08 | ZIGGO Ziggo - tv, internet, telefoon