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Complete whois database download

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I am looking for downloading a complete whois database such as available @ https://www.whoisxmlapi.com/whois-database-download.php  from their webpage I am interested in [ The complete database(155 million records)       ] However it's extremely costly for me to purchase, so I am looking for any other alternative

Thanks for all the helps in advance
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Ankit : Thanks for suggestion, anyone else with any other suggestion like http://domaingang.com/domain-news/someone-selling-entire-whois-database-160-million-records/
Hey you can buy the whois database but need to pay. So i recommended that if you looking for buy then try to buy from genuine website. If you buy database in cheap rate and they are not genuine may be sell you garbage.
So before buy first check other customer reviews and double sure about database details. Because once you paid them may be they don't return your money and sell you garbage so be aware from frauds also.
You are right, that's why I am looking for a help from someone who knows or owns it. While googling I found another website selling somehow same information [ https://www.whoxy.com/whois-database/ ]
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Can you enlighten us about what your motivations are for trying to get a copy of the "entire" who-is database? The database changes hourly.

If you're thinking you can send emails to all of the entries, you'd be doing a very misguided thing.
jmcg: no email or any sort of marketing, I would be making interface for lookup, you can consider it as a college project thingy.
Too bad you can't just get the information from NSA by filing a FOIA request!
jmcg: thanks for your input :-\
You might want to take a look at WhoisThisDomain http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/whois_this_domain.html by Nirsoft.  That program queries the existing databases which is how they are meant to be used.
anyone else to help?
It might help to clarify what you're trying to do a bit more. Some people are trying to tell you to just use existing who-is tools, which isn't particularly apt for what you said you wanted to do.

Does it have to be who-is data? Would you consider using some other suitably large body of public-domain data for your exercise? For instance, you can download all of Wikipedia (or at least you used to be able to).
well it has to be whois data so I can use these data for lookups based on name, email, and other fields!
For a mere $200, you can get a sample of 1 million parsed records, the top million Alexa domains from 18 months ago. That ought to be enough to develop your software solution against. Once you have it working, you can decide whether getting more (old) data will be worthwhile.
well it has to be whois data so I can use these data for lookups based on name, email, and other fields!
Makes me wonder what you're expecting to find.  One of the things you will find are a lot of 'Private' registrations where the owner has signed up with one of the 'Privacy' registration companies.  You will find the name and email of a lot of technical support people who don't own the domains.
@Dave: in that case I would need to be filtering such records!
I think the first thing you need to do is collect a lot of 'whois' data to see what will be available.  Here http://whois.icann.org/en is the master 'whois' source.  It also shows at the bottom which 'whois' server it contacted to get the information.  There isn't just one.
ICANN makes it very clear that you are not allowed to use their interface to collect the large volume of whois data contemplated in this question:

You agree to use this data only for lawful purposes and further agree not to use this data (i) to allow, enable, or otherwise support the transmission by email, telephone, or facsimile of mass unsolicited, commercial advertising, or (ii) to enable high volume, automated, electronic processes to collect or compile this data for any purpose, including without limitation mining this data for your own personal or commercial purposes.
dave jmcg is right, i can't bulk download data from them, i have also given examples above of what i am looking for
You are misunderstanding what I suggested.  I think you should get a few samples to see what kind of data you are actually going to get.

If you are referring to the links you posted above, I think you'll that they are not really what you are looking for.  If you go to ICANN's whois, you will see that they aren't querying their own database, they are checking with the 'whois' from the domain registrars.  For 'google.com' the WHOIS server is 'whois.markmonitor.com'.  Interestingly, it's the same company for 'yahoo.com'.  My own 'whois' info comes from 'register.com'  for one domain and godaddy.com for some others.

The 'whois' services and DNS Domain Name Services are distributed systems that are maintained by many sites and companies.  There isn't just one source for all of it.
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there is an cheap alternative to get whole whois database daily basis. I found it http://www.getwhoisdata.com