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Whois

Whois is a protocol for submitting a query to a database for determing the owner of a domain name, an IP network, or an autonomous system number.

For instance a whois query on wikipedia.org results in the following:

  Domain ID:D51687756-LROR  Domain Name:WIKIPEDIA.ORG  Created On:13-Jan-2001 00:12:14 UTC  Last Updated On:19-Oct-2003 02:52:44 UTC  Expiration Date:13-Jan-2005 00:12:14 UTC  Sponsoring Registrar:R71-LROR  Status:OK  Registrant ID:C3819183-RCOM  Registrant Name:Jimmy Wales  Registrant Organization:Bomis,Inc.  Registrant Street1:4455LamontSt.,Suite3  Registrant City:SanDiego  Registrant State/Province:CA  Registrant Postal Code:92109  Registrant Country:US  Registrant Phone:+1.6192739361  Registrant FAX:+1.6192739363  Registrant Email:jwales@bomis.com  Admin ID:C11978190-RCOM  Admin Name:Jimmy Wales  Admin Organization:Bomis,Inc.  Admin Street1:3585HancockSt.,SuiteA  Admin City:SanDiego  Admin State/Province:CA  Admin Postal Code:92110  Admin Country:US  Admin Phone:+1.6192961732  Admin Email:jwales@bomis.com  Tech ID:C1-RCOM  Tech Name:Domain Registrar  Tech Organization:Register.Com  Tech Street1:5758thAvenue  Tech City:NewYork  Tech State/Province:NY  Tech Postal Code:10018  Tech Country:US  Tech Phone:+1.9027492701  Tech Email:domain-registrar@register.com  Name Server:DNS33.REGISTER.COM  Name Server:DNS34.REGISTER.COM 

External links

• RFC954 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc954.txt), official definition of Whois
• Internic Whois (http://www.internic.net/whois.html), run a Whois query for [Generic top-level domains (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Generic_top-level_domains)]
• Whois (http://www.whois.to/), Web based Whois service for Generic and all available [country-code (two-letter) top-level domains (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Country_code_top-level_domains)]