Internet utility used to query a host to find out what users are registered on that system.
Displays information on any member of the Internet community.
Is an Internet program that allows Internet users to access a database of users and information about such Internet areas as domains, networks, and hosts which are kept at the NIC.
protocol for submitting a query to a database for determing the owner of a domain name, an IP Network, or an Autonomous system Number. You can try out Imbri Web's WHOIS tool here.
This is an Internet service that finds information about a domain name or IP ...
This is a central database which tracks new and existing domain name registrations.
A Web-based utility that allows you to look up the owners of domain names.
So-called whois databases store information concerning the owners and operators of domains and make this information accessible to all internet users. You can, for instance, find out in which country the server for a particular IP address is located, and who registered it.
A function that allows you to look up the listed and registered details pertaining to a Domain name. For an example of the best WhoIs, click HERE. DOMAIN WORDS GLOSSARY CUBAN
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a utility that returns ownership information about second-level domains.
A program that polls the domain name database; allows the user to determine who owns and administrates a domain. An Internet directory service for looking up names of people on a remote server. Many servers respond to TCP queries on port 43, in a manner roughly analogous to the DDN NIC whois service described in RFC 954. Other sites provide this directory service via the finger protocol or accept queries by electronic mail for directory information. On Unix the client command is.
Allows you to find information about who a person is. A searchable database most commonly associated with domain name searches to see who owns a certain domain.
An Internet directory services protocol; a possible alternative for X.500.
whois Internet user name directory service
An Internet service used to ask registrars for a domain or network's registration information. It has not been universally implemented.
a global database that stores improtant details regarding your domain
a search performed on a domain name or IP to determine who owns it, as well as a ton of other useful information
A program that allows users to query a database of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks, and hosts, kept in the DDN NIC (Department of Defense Network Information Center). Information stored here includes company names, addresses, phone numbers , and e-mail addresses.
A TCP transaction based query/response server, which provides netwide directory service to network users. The Whois Protocol was originally defined in RFC 954. The initial domain name related application layer implementations were centralized systems run by SRC-NIC and then later InterNIC/Network Solutions. The SRI-NIC and InterNIC implementations are more formally referred to as "NICNAME/Whois" services. Whois is not purely a domain name or IP address directory service, but has been deployed for a wide variety of uses, both public and private. Other variants of this service include RWhois and the newer Verisign Referral LDAP Whois service. Whois can refer to the protocol defined in RFC 954 or the generic application service described above.
A database that you can use to locate people on the Internet. If found, the user's name, address, phone number, company, and e-mail address is typically displayed. Whois can be used to find someone's e-mail address. The Whois database can be accessed using a Telnet program.
A network "white pages" service that lists user information such as computer name, e-mail address, etc... Not all users can be found using whois, because individual servers may or may not allow whois access.
An online service that provides publicly accessible information on the registered owner of a particular second-level ".com", ".net", and ".org" domain name.
A function that allows the visitor to look up the contact details of a domain name.
An Internet database that provides information on a person or an organization.
The contact information associated with a domain name is often called the WHOIS information. This is maintained by the registrar that registered the name, not the central registry and the exact format and content varies with each registrar. Note: looking up names in a WHOIS tool is not the same as checking domain availability. WHOIS tools are typically 24-48 hours out of date and often provide misleading availability information.
The Whois function on i-DNS.net's searchable registry allows a potential registrant to check if a domain name has been registered, and by which registrar.
This is a facility within all three Internet registries that allow you to trace IP addresses back to the person responsible for the network.
Used to query a host to determine if a certain user is registered on that system. Within the context of domain names, a whois query generally refers to a query on a domain name, which provides information on the registrant / owner of the domain name. A domain whois will return information including the registrants name, contact information, address, and the domain name's expiration date.
Whois is a program that will tell you the owner of any second-level domain name who has registered it with Network Solutions, formerly the only and still the most widely used of the Internet registrars of the com, net, and org domain names.
This refers to an option on the registrar's web page, where you can verify if the domain is taken or not. You can also search for administrative, technical and billing contact details.
A central database that tracks all domain name/IP registrations.
A central database which tracks all domain name/IP registrations.
An Internet program (related to Finger and the White Pages) that lets you enter an Internet entity (such as domains, networks, and hosts) and display information such as a person's company name, address, phone number and email address.
WHOIS refers to the database of records maintained by each Domain Registry. Although each Registry makes different data public, you can generally find information on domain name availability, registrant, administrative, billing and technical contact information, name servers, plus dates of activity.
Whois is a service that some internet web sites provide that give detailed information on who owns certain domains and how to get in touch with the owner
An Internet utility used to find ownership information about a Web site in the registry database.
A Net database that lists information on a person or an organization.
Whois is a protocol for submitting a query to a database for determining the owner of a domain name, an IP network, or an autonomous system number.
Program that queries the InterNIC's database of domain names.
An Internet Utility that returns information about a domain name or IP address. For example, if you enter a domain name, WhoIs will return the name and address of the domain name's owner.
Query a whois or nicname database, see the section called "Other hosts".
A searchable database maintained by Network Solutions, which contains information about networks, networking organizations, domain names, and the contacts associated with them for the com, org, net, edu, and ISO 3166 country code top-level domains. Also, the protocol, or set of rules, that describes the application used to access the database. Other organizations have implemented the Whois protocol and maintain separate and distinct Whois databases for their respective domains.
An Internet service allowing to obtain the information about the domain name owner.
An internet database that provides information about resources on networks.
Query a whois or nicname database, see Section 10.1.2.6.
A searchable database containing information about the domains managed through a given Registrar. Registrars are required to make the contact information for domains public.
An Internet utility program that obtains information (such as owner and contact info) about a Domain name or IP number from the database of a domain name registry. If the search result returns "No match", the domain name is probably available, and you can apply to register it. To search for a domain name across all registrars at once, you can use BetterWhois.
A searchable database maintained by registries and registrars that contains information about domain name registrations. A WHOIS query is primarily used to look up for the domain name ownership information and the domain name status.
An Internet directory service, similar to finger, used to look up names of people on a remote server. You can use whois through third-party utilities on Windows and Macintosh machines, and through the command-line interface in Unix. Most commonly, you use whois to look up domain ownerships and contact addresses. For example, whois cnet.com would return CNET's DNS and contact information.
WHOIS is a directory of domain name information. When you register a domain name, your postal address, e-mail address and phone number are automatically published in the public WHOIS database. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit body responsible for accrediting domain name registrars, requires that this personal information be accurate and available for anybody to view on the Internet.
A facility that helps Internet users locate other Internet users and resources. See Chapter 6.
A searchable database maintained by a domain registrar that includes details such as the name, address, or technical contacts for a given domain.
is a TCP/IP utility program that allows you to query compatible servers for detailed information about other Internet users.
An Internet program which allows users to query a database of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks, and hosts, kept at the DDN NIC. The information for people shows a person's company name, address, phone number and email address. See also: Defense Data Network Network ..., white pages, Knowbot, X.500. [Source: FYI4
A search engine service of sorts which looks up specific domain name information. This includes ownership, contact, expiration, and other information.
An Internet utility that you can use to look up information about an Internet site in the registry database at Internic or elsewhere. You can enter a name like Delphi, a domain address like delphiforums.com, or a full or partial IP address and get information on the site's name, address, points of contact, etc. The utility can be run with your own ISP or net account, or you can use the Network Solutions Whois web page for domain names and the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN) for IP addresses. There are also WHOIS servers in Europe (RIPE), Australia, and Asia-Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC). Many more WHOIS servers are maintained for particular organizations. A very complete list of Internet WHOIS servers is kept at MIT. NetLab is an excellent Win 95 freeware program that includes whois and other utilities. WS-FTP Pro, an excellent shareware FTP program, also provides whois and other utilities in its package. If you don't know where a domain is registered, use Allwhois.com.
A software program that enables users to register their names and e-mail addresses and to search a database of people, domains, networks, and hosts using telnet.
Whois is a term referring to a domain name search feature for a database - typically for Top-Level Domain name registries. Information such as name availability can be found through a query or search using a whois protocol (standard). Most Top-Level Domain registries maintain their own whois database containing domain name contact information.
An Internet application that lets you query the domain name database, providing details of all currently registered domain names, and locating domain names that are currently unregistered.
A search that provides the company name, address, and contact information of a visitor to a site. Whois lengthens the log analysis duration considerably.
An Internet program which allows users to query a database of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks and hosts. See http://internic.net.
A searchable database maintained by registries and registrars that contains information about domain name registrations in the .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU and ISO 3166 country code top-level domains. Also, the protocol, or set of rules, that describes the application used to access the database.
An Internet program that allows users to query a database of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks, and hosts kept at the NIC. The information for people shows a person's company name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. See white pages. Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) A distributed information service that offers simple natural language input, indexed searching for fast retrieval, and a "relevance feedback" mechanism that allows the results of initial searches to influence future searches. Public domain implementations are available. See also Archie, Gopher. WWWebfx Home Page Wide Area Information Server Wide Area Information Server, which is an Internet text search and retrieval system that works much like Gopher in that you use keywords to locate items within an online database. Unlike Gopher, WAIS searches are limited to keyword searches; you can't navigate databases through a series of menus. A Gopher server uses WAIS to conduct a search. WWWebfx Home Page
A program and accompanying database maintained by the NIC for obtaining e-mail adresses and other info about other Internet users. It is meant to be a database of all Internet users, but is far from complete. A similar experimental service is Netfind. See finger.
A standard for an Internet directory services protocol.
A TCP transaction based query/response server that provides a net wide directory service to network users. This can be used to determine if domain names are registered and by whom. More complex queries can result in multiple results showing lists of domains registered to specific entities or residing on specified host machines.
An Internet program that lets you obtain information about an Internet domain or host.
A universal database maintained by registries and registrars with domain contact information.
A means of looking up names in a remote database. Used initially as an aid for finding e-mail addresses for people at large institutions or companies.
(Who Is) Whois is a program or a means to identify a domain names registration information. A whois search will list available contact and registration information for domains and IP addresses.
As in, the Whois database.
A database query system that provides technical contact information and other details about a domain nameholder.
A searchable database maintained by the registrar, which contains information about networks, networking organizations, domain names, and the contacts associated with them for respective domains. Also, the set of rules that describes the application used to access the database. This site uses fasterWhoIs, an advanced engine that quickly searches all registrars' databases for domain name availability.
Whois is both a database and a tool. An internet database that provides information on a persons or a organization.
program that searches the database of domain name resellers and returns information on a domain name that you provide.
A searchable database, shows information about website, owner, owner's name & address, server's IP etc.
A query made on a database which holds information about domain names to determine whether or not a particular domain name has been registered or to obtain details of the person or entity that registered the name.
An Internet directory service which can be used to find information about users registered on a server, or other information about the network.
Most registries maintain a database of domain names and their associated contact information. Users can query these databases through a program called Whois.
WHOIS databases contain nameserver, registrar, and in some cases, full contact information about a domain name. Each registrar must maintain a WHOIS database containing all contact information for the domains they 'host'. A central registry WHOIS database is maintained by the InterNIC. This database contains only registrar and nameserver information for all .com, .net and .org domains.
WHOIS is a TCP-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. WHOIS lookups were traditionally made using a command line interface, but a number of simplified web-based tools now exist for looking up domain ownership details from different databases. Web-based WHOIS clients still rely on the WHOIS protocol to connect to a WHOIS server and do lookups, and command-line WHOIS clients are still quite widely used by system administrators.