Possible to download entire whois database / list of registered domains?

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Published on 2008-11-21T01:38:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 0:43 UTC
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I wanted to do some analysis on registered domain names. Looks like I can hit whois.internic.net to get information about each domain, but it also looks like there are rate limits that prevent me from doing large numbers of queries.

Is there a way to periodically (say daily) grab the entire whois database? I really only care about whether a domain is registered or not, so I don't need the full whois information.

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