Posts Tagged ‘Whois’

AbouThiSite: Smart Weasel, Useless Data

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

Mashup site, AbouThiSite, attempts to make the process of getting the information you need about a domain easier than ever, but does it provide the needed tools for us to get by?



WhoIsHostingThis: Easy and Reliable

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 25th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Products

Recent improvements at WhoIsHostingThis promise to make it the go-to resource for finding the host of a site. But are the improvements good enough?



Whois Service Comes Under Fire

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 30th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

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According to a recent AP article, the Whois service, a series of databases with information about the individuals that register domains, has come under fire from privacy advocates and a new proposal seeks to do away with the service altogether.
Such a move would be a tremendous blow to law enforcement, lawyers and researchers that [...]