The process of searching for a website’s owner is referred to as a “WhoIs search”, as in who is the owner of a particular site or domain. The search operation is often carried out if there is any ...

Want detailed information about a particular web site? Network Solutions has significantly enhanced their classic Whois service, providing richer information and more useful tools than most other ...

Looks like Google’s gained a new direct answer service, whois information for domains. Enter a query like whois searchengineland.com, and you’ll be told when the domain was registered and expires, ...

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 had specifically ...

The issue cropped up about two weeks ago, when Google quietly launched a service allowing visitors to look up data on domain name owners from public databases — collectively known as Whois — run by ...

The whois and jwhois command can retrieve extensive details on domain registrations including domain registrants, domain status, responsible organizations and their locations. The whois and jwhois ...

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 ...

You have probably heard about the GDPR and its consequences a hundred times by now, but for clarity let’s do a quick recap. The GDPR is a new regulation by the European Union created around the ...

When Internet regulators approved a new set of top-level domains last year, the idea was to create a piece of cyberspace that was a bit less congested than the saturated dot-com domain. But as ...