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QuickWho 1.1

I've released version 1.1 of QuickWho, my Mac GUI for the Unix command-line "whois" utility that lets you look up domain registration information.

Version 1.1 is a pretty significant update over version 1.0, which was a simple GUI wrapper for only the most basic functionality offered by the command-line tool. Version 1.1 offers the ability to query specific whois servers by selecting from the tree view. What's cool about this feature is that you can simply navigate with the up-and-down arrow keys on your keyboard, or use the mouse, and information for the specified domain will be returned. The command-line tool doesn't give you this ability, at least not with this ease-of-use. Also, other GUI tools don't make it this fast to navigate through multiple servers. (Apple's Network Utility tool, for instance, lets you choose multiple servers, but you have to select from a drop-down menu and hit the "get information" button each time you do this.)

In addition to the significant enhancement in utility, QuickWho 1.1 also allows you to save and print the resulting data, copy the text, and configure the font in the text display. These were all features missing from version 1.0.

Because QuickWho 1.1 is such a major update over version 1.0, I'm also raising the price to $24.95.

If you do a lot of work with Internet domain registration, QuickWho is definitely worth a look--it can save you a lot of time.

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