FTP access manual Whois API LLC http://www.whoisxmlapi.com Copyright ©2010-2017 This data feed subscription is licensed to you or your organization only, you may not resell or relicense the data without explicit written permission from Whois API LLC. Any violation will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. About this document The present document is available in html, pdf and unicode text format from the following locations. Primary URL: http://www.domainwhoisdatabase.com/docs/WhoisXMLAPI_ftp_manual File version 1.0 Approved on 2018-06-11. A full list of available WhoisXML API data feed manuals is available at http://www.domainwhoisdatabase.com/docs Contents * 1 Introduction * 2 FTP access of WHOIS data * 2.1 FTP clients * 2.2 FTP access * 2.3 FTP directory structure of legacy and quarterly subscriptions * 2.4 FTP firewall settings for legacy subscriptions 1 Introduction The present document is a stand-alone description of the ftp access to WhoisXML Api database download products. It is intended for those subscribers who have requested an ftp access to use it beside or instead of web dowlnoads. The information provided below is also available in our other manuals as a section. 2 FTP access of WHOIS data WHOIS data can be downloaded from our ftp servers, too. In case of newer subscribers the ftp access is described on the web page of the subscription. 2.1 FTP clients You can use any software which supports the standard ftp protocol. On most systems there is a command-line ftp client. As a GUI client we recommend FileZilla (https://filezilla-project.org, which is a free, cross-platform solution. Thus it is available for most common OS environments, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD variants. On Windows systems, the default downloads of FileZilla contain adware, thus most virus protection software do not allow to run them. To overcome this issue, download FileZilla from the following URL: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1 The files downloaded from this location do not contain adware. 2.2 FTP access For the subscriptions after 2020, the ftp access to the data works with the following settings: Host: datafeeds.whoisxmlapi.com Port: 21210 Username: ’user’ Password: the same as your personal API Key which you can obtain from the “My Products” page of the given service Base path: ftp://datafeeds.whoisxmlapi.com:21210 Consult also the information pages of your subscription. 2.3 FTP directory structure of legacy and quarterly subscriptions This applies to legacy and quarterly subscriptions, the data can be accessed as described below in case of legacy subscriptions (i.e. those who use bestwhois.org and domainwhoisdatabase.com for web-based access). As a rule of thumb, if the feed you download has the base URL is https://domainwhoisdatabase.com you will find it on the ftp server ftp.domainwhoisdatabase.com while if it is under https://bestwhois.org you have to connect the ftp server ftp.bestwhois.org port 2021 (please set the port information in your client) to access the data. If you log in into the server, you will find the data in a subdirectory in your root ftp directory named after the feed. There are some exceptions, which are documented in the description of the given feed in the appropriate manual. You will see only those subdirectories which are accessible within any of your subscription plans there. A word of caution: as most of the feeds contain a huge amount of data, some ftp operations can be slow. For instance, to obtain the directory listing of some of the feed directories may take a few minutes, so please be patient, do not cancel the operation after a shorter time. (Ftp does not have the feature to show a part of the directory listing or a listing stored in a cache, as in case of the web access.) If your subscription covers a subset of quarterly releases only, you will find these under quarterly_gtld and quarterly_cctld, in a subdirectory named after the release version. 2.4 FTP firewall settings for legacy subscriptions Our FTP servers use 4 ports: 21, 2021, 2121, and 2200. In order to use our ftp service, you need to ensure that the following ports: * for ftp.domainwhoisdatabase.com: 21, 2121, and 2200, * for ftp.bestwhois.org: 2021, 2121, and 2200 are open on both TCP and UDP on your firewall. If the respective ports are not open, you will encounter either of the following behaviors: You cannot access the respective server. You can access the respective server, but after login, you can’t even get the directory listing, it runs onto timeout. If you encounter any of these problems, please revise your firewall settings. End of manual. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This document was translated from L^AT_EX by H^EV^EA.