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retlehs/quien

A better whois and domain intelligence toolkit observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/retlehs/quien · homepage · Go · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

74/100

  • Activity 89
  • Release rhythm 90
  • Longevity 10

Flags: young

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 0.0
  • age_days: 145
  • days_rel: 71
  • days_push: 71
  • n_releases_24m: 21

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1253 stars · 32 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

quien is a Go CLI and interactive TUI that replaces whois with a tabbed domain and IP intelligence tool covering WHOIS/RDAP, DNS, mail authentication, SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, SEO, Core Web Vitals, and tech stack detection. It also provides JSON subcommands for scripting and automated lookups.

Use cases

  • look up whois registration info for a domain
  • audit SPF, DMARC, DKIM and BIMI email authentication records
  • check SSL certificate expiry and SANs for a domain
  • investigate IP ownership, ASN, and peering info
  • run an SEO and Core Web Vitals audit on a website
  • detect the tech stack behind a website
  • script domain lookups with JSON output

When to choose

  • you want a modern, structured replacement for the whois command
  • you need combined domain, DNS, mail, TLS, and SEO intelligence in one tool
  • you want JSON output for automation and scripting
  • you need IP/ASN intelligence with PeeringDB enrichment

When to avoid

  • you need a GUI or web-based domain dashboard
  • you require deep bulk domain scanning at scale
  • you only need a single narrow check better served by a dedicated tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli search-engine networking security developer-tools monitoring networking security developer-tools web-development cli windows cross-platform whois rdap dns domain-intelligence ip-lookup asn bgp seo-audit core-web-vitals email-authentication spf dmarc dkim bimi tls tech-stack-detection tui peeringdb command-line linux macos

2 sources

Member repositories

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For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="retlehs/quien")

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