diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/asyncwhois/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/asyncwhois/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ba8f212d2f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/asyncwhois/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, pythonOlder
+, aiodns
+, tldextract
+, pytestCheckHook
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "asyncwhois";
+  version = "0.2.0";
+  disabled = pythonOlder "3.6";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "0rdmg59jzzfz59b3ckg5187lc0wk9r0pzp9x09nq3xs21mcwqjxz";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    aiodns
+    tldextract
+  ];
+
+  # tests are only present at GitHub but not the released source tarballs
+  # https://github.com/pogzyb/asyncwhois/issues/10
+  doCheck = false;
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "asyncwhois" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Python module for retrieving WHOIS information";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/pogzyb/asyncwhois";
+    license = with licenses; [ asl20 ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ fab ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 51e66edc5b4..0256839a777 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -459,6 +459,8 @@ in {
 
   async-upnp-client = callPackage ../development/python-modules/async-upnp-client { };
 
+  asyncwhois = callPackage ../development/python-modules/asyncwhois { };
+
   atlassian-python-api = callPackage ../development/python-modules/atlassian-python-api { };
 
   atom = callPackage ../development/python-modules/atom { };