WHOIS - Service that shows registrant of a domain name
Questions tagged [whois]
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Postal address in Whois information, how bad of an idea is this?
I currently have my full contact details (including my phone number and postal address) in the WHOIS information for all the domain names I have registered so far. I wonder how bad of an idea this is and whether I should remove such information from…
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Free whois history service?
I'd like to access whois history starting with year 2007 or earlier for free. Domaintools is kind of expensive for my purposes. who.is seems to provide history starting with year 2009 unfortunately.
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Is there anyway for me to legally and ethically hit the whois on thousands of domains?
I have a project that is building comprehensive data on thousands of companies and domain information is an important part of it, but often the whois services will say that you can't use them for high-traffic queries. So how CAN you do high-traffic?
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reliable way to get whois information in standard format
I am trying to write a script to fetch whois information for a bunch of sites. I am facing two problems:
1) whois command arbitrarily returns fgets/connection reset errors. Trying multiple times for a site often works but is very ugly.
2) The data…
JP19
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How long does it take a whois server to update?
I added two NS records to my DNS record four days ago. I did this to use a service provided by the name servers that I added. In order to get them to enable their services, they need to verify that they are name server for my domain by doing a…
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Whois shows empty data but domain not free
I looked whois for mrs.in . It isn't free but the whois data is almost empty.
Why is so?
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How to change the owner of a .co.uk whose owner has died?
Years ago, I registered a .co.uk domain for my mother using my own 123-reg account. I set the registrant name to hers as it was a gift for her and she would be the owner.
Time passed and she has since died. The domain is still managed by my own…
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Extracting Organization ID from WhoIs Query
I am trying to extract OrgId from whois query to detect malicious servers.
whois 69.59.28.19 | grep OrgId: | awk '{print $2}'
But for some IPs there are multiple OrgId entries.
whois 69.59.28.19
whois 208.115.113.93
What is the reason of this…
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How can I find the administrator of a website?
The question above sums it up, but I will restate it here: What is a resource I can use to find the administrator of a website?
Ajay Abcdefg
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Updating rwhois contact information to satisfy blacklisting agent
I've had a VPS for several years, operating at the same IP address. Recently my IP address was listed at MIPspace for sending "unsolicited email marketing". I am NOT in the business of email marketing.
I've been attempting to resolve the issue with…
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whois information and privacy
I recently owned my own website and had to fill in details for whois database. I'm not comfortable displaying my personal details (where I live, what my number is etc.) publicly. My hosting provider however did give me the option to customize what I…
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How to find data of newly registered domains and whois information
I see that companies are able to find whois data of newly registered domains? can I have information on how exactly is that done?
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How to get ultra private whois information like the following:
How would i get ultra private DNS whois informaation like the following:
link
link 2
As you can see it is not just private domain registration, the nameservers on the two different whois sites are showing different information and it is very…
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