Email Hippo WHOIS API Documentation

Email Hippo ‘WHOIS’ API services facilitate easy, fast and scalable access to the global WHOIS databases in both structured and un-structured formats.

This document will show you how to get up and running with the the service. You will have the basics of the API up and running in 15 minutes or less.

Quick Start

• Quick Start
  • 1) Create Account
  • 2) Try it

Data Privacy

• Data Privacy
• Compliance
• Security

Editions

• About Editions

Integration Guide

• Schema
• Return Protocols
• Firewall Rules

Features

• Features
  • Confidence In Data Security
  • Consistent, parsed records
  • Machine Readable Dates
  • > 99.9% Service Availability
  • Easy Integration
  • Fanatical Service Quality Management (SQM)
  • Fast, Transparent Response Times
  • Unrivalled Performance
  • Thoughtful Versioning
  • What it does

Reliability

• Service Reliability
  • About Our Infrastructure
  • Service Level Agreement

Concurrency

• Concurrency
  • Limits
  • Suggestions on how to manage throughput
  • Large throughput requirements

Data Dictionary

• Data Dictionary For WHOIS API V1

Client Libraries

• Client Libraries
  • Swagger Code Generator

Technical Specification

• Technical Specification

FAQs

• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Can I trust you with my data?
  • How can I get a key?
  • How do I call the API?
  • What comes back from the API?
  • How reliable is the API?
  • Does the system get slower when it’s busy?
  • Do you cache results?
  • Can I get My Usage in Real-Time?
  • How does it work?
  • Can I get blacklisted using this API?
  • Will anyone know that I am quering a domain?

Glossary

• Glossary

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page