diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8e92f17..20c16e1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ requests>=2.32.5
 
 # --- DNS / WHOIS ---
 dnspython>=2.7.0
-python-whois>=0.9.0
+python-whois>=0.9.6
 
 # --- Image steganography + forensic EXIF ---
 Pillow>=11.3.0