WHOIS - Service that shows registrant of a domain name
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What Can I do to Contact a Domain Owner?
A few months ago, I found a perfect .com domain name for a website I'm working on. Bad news: it was taken. Good news: It was set to expire on January 12, 2012. It's not a premium name or anything ...
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How can I keep my privacy while owning multiple domain names?
I want to own, create and run few domains. I do not want 'whois' to have my name, home address and home phone available to anyone who looks me up.
I've already bought a mailbox that I can use for my ...
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Where can I safetly search domain whois without worrying about the search engine parking on the domain immediately after the search?
There are a lot of companies that provide domain whois but I've heard of a lot of people who had bad experiences where the domain was bought soon after the whois search and the price was increased ...
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Finding the expiration date of a domain?
Is there a way to find the expiration date of a ".id.au" domain?
I can't seem to find any information on any .id.au domain I search on.
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Extraction of whois data for country level domains( .us/.uk etc)
I'm using Domaintools.com whois api to get the whois info about domains. But they don't have data for country level domains like .us/.au etc.
Is there any place I get the whois info using some api ...
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I own a domain name. Can people view my personal registered info?
Is my information protected?
Or can someone tell where I live by my domain name?
Why do hosting services offer a protected information service for extra money?
How can I view that information?
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How to determine, who to contact for transferring my Domain
My client's domain, www.daccusa.org, is hosted at inmotionhosting.com. They tell me though, that the domain itself, is not.
I've spoken with two different customer supports at inmotionhosting.com and ...
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private whois but still list email-address?
I tried Googling it, but I couldn't find an answer.
I would like private whois, meaning I wouldn't want to display my home address etc.
However, I still would want to list email-address.
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Free whois history service? [closed]
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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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 ...
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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?
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Cloudflare is it safe?
I am thinking of signing up with cloud flare, but since i'm not very familiar with the technical side of things, I wanted to ask here first.
How safe is it to sign up with services, like cloud flare?
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Is it possible to use Whois Guard on dot pro domains?
I have purchased two dot pro domains but the holder info is exposed.
Is it possible to use Whois Guard or the like on dot pro domains? If so, Do you know any service provider or registrar that offers ...
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Which DNS registrars will hide my WHOIS information? [closed]
Whilst browsing this question, some of the answers mentioned that certain registrars will replace your whois information with their own. Can anybody provide details on which registrars offer this ...
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Does changing domain ownership affect SEO?
I have heard that when domain ownership changes, the domain loses its page rank.
My theory on this is: Lots of sites selling high PR domains actually cheat. They invest in high PR links for the ...
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Can I access domain registration (whois) history?
I know how to find out who currently owns a domain ("whois domainname").
I'd very much like to get in touch with the previous (recent) owner of a single particular domain. Is that possible? Thanks.
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Domain appears taken when searched from a different host, but whois says 'No match'
I have recently registered a new .name domain. It is just myfirstname.name, something like nanda.name.
My debit card has been billed, but my domain control panel doesn't show any information ...
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WHOIS domain name expiry date long over due
I just looked up this domain I was interested in obtaining but when I got the WHOIS info it showed this...
Created On:31-Dec-2004 18:18:31 UTC
Last Updated On:31-Dec-2004 18:18:36 UTC
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Is it possible to transfer a domain without a “gap” in Whois privacy protection?
I currently own several domains on which I am using a Whois privacy protection service to hide my personal details. In the near future, I would like to transfer some of these domains to a different ...
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How to register a .cn domain
I would like to register a .cn domain. I found the below pages which list the officially accredited registrars:
-based in China: http://www.cnnic.net.cn/html/Dir/2007/06/05/4635.htm
-based outside ...
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Hiding whois information on GoDaddy registered domains
I have a few domains hosted at GoDaddy, and it's posting my address, phone number, and email address on my whois results.
It looks like they charge an exorbitant $10/year for "private registration" ...
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What organizations handle the TLD registries and what are the links to their whois search pages
Cautionary Tale: Registrars get rich by screwing you out of money
My first foray into web design included a site with a handful of issues. The original designer/developer created it as a one-off and ...
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How can I hide whois information?
Is it possible to hide ownership of a domain, so i won't show up on whois searches for domains I own, even if you know where to look?
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How to find the records for domain name purchased today and in past? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I access domain registration (whois) history?
How to find the records for domain names purchased today and in past?
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WHOIS data accuracy policy: can the domain be cancelled?
I am trying to contact the owner of a domain name regarding potential purchase of the name. The owner's listed contact doesn't work, I never got any replies from him/her. (In fact, the contacts are ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to find whom a registrar is reselling?
In case a domain is registered not with an ICANN accredited registrar and only the reseller is mentioned in the whois, how can I find out whom is the reseller actually reselling? For example, whois ...
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List of services for privatizing whois information
I am registered with a domain name registrar which does not offer an anonymous whois service. However, I am interested in using some third-party service to keep my whois information private. Are there ...
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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 ...
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Whois and server host information privacy
I have a domain that is privately registered, so if you run a whois, you will just the domain registrars name. And below are two questions:
Since i am using private registration, is there a way ...
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How do I purchase a parked domain?
I've found a domain name that I'm interested in buying, but it's parked. A few questions stick out in my mind:
How do you contact the owner of the domain to make an offer? Just e-mail the ...
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Monitoring Domain Availability
How can I write a tool to monitor domain name availability? In particular, I am interested in monitoring availability of a domain which is in PENDINGDELETE (or REDEMPTIONPERIOD or ...
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What is up with these guys at NetFirms - they have been hacked and they don't seem to care [closed]
NetFirms is one of the top domain registrars, but go to their website and do a whois lookup for any of the top websites (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc). Do yo see what I see? I notified them about this may ...
