ICANN's WhoIs tool is a useful way to learn about the people or companies behind a website. This guide should make understanding its results a bit easier.

WHOIS protection can cost up to $10 a year with some domain registrars, but these ones offer it for free when you buy a ...

Figure B Another option when seeking to perform a whois lookup on a specific registrar’s server is to specify the domain registrar server upon which the command should be run using the -h switch.

To find out if a domain name is available, type it into the WHOIS search tool, hit Enter, and look at the results. If it says something like “No data found”, the domain probably isn’t taken ...

Visit the listed registrar’s website and search for the ‘WHOIS’ tool to get the details of who owns your domain. Inkjet vs. laser: What you should know before you buy a printer Private ...

Both query WHOIS servers from the Linux command line. WHOIS services are mainly run by registrars and registries, and they manage a lot of details on each domain registration.

Every since Google became a registrar in January 2005, SEOs wondered how Google would use the whois data. In mid-February we reported that Google admitted to using registrar data to "increase the ...

However, you can choose domain privacy protection if you don’t want the names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. of website contacts listed in WhoIs for all the world to see.

Cisco security researchers recently revealed that since mid-2013, a bug in Google Apps made the WHOIS information on 282,867 domains available publically despite the fact that owners ...

Competitive Intelligence : Domains, Hosts and WHOIS Sometimes it is hard to figure out who your online competitors are, or worse, what they are doing to ...