Every whois lookup in IP2WHOIS, pulled into one sheet
1 read operation and no writes: a companion can WHOIS lookup in IP2WHOIS and hand back the whois lookups with the source on each row.
Open the whois lookup. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the IP2WHOIS afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing changed until you say so.
What it can do is exactly what IP2WHOIS exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 1 operation, 1 read and no writes. In practice that means it can WHOIS lookup.
The IP2WHOIS API stops at IP2WHOIS. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Does it read the whois lookups or ask you for them?
The only operation there is reads.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can WHOIS lookup, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from IP2WHOIS's documentation.
The whois lookups are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the whois lookups. A companion can hold that operation and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of IP2WHOIS admin becomes a queue you review.
- WHOIS lookup
How does a companion change a whois lookup?
Through the screens you already use.
IP2WHOIS exposes no write operation to a connected account, so a companion drives IP2WHOIS in the session you are already signed into instead, filling the same forms you would to move a whois lookup, and anything consequential stops for an approval card before it happens.
That is the ordinary case rather than the exception. Most of what a whois lookup in IP2WHOIS touches has no API pointed at it, and a companion is useful precisely because it does not need one.
Does the whois lookup sweep have to be asked for every time?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the IP2WHOIS whois lookups pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The operations playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the ticket queue, the IP2WHOIS whois lookups sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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