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Title: Who is look ups
Post by: camallison on September 24, 2009, 04:31:42 PM

Does anyone know where I can perform a WHO IS lookup of a .org domain to find out who it belongs to?

Colin

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: tuftedduck on September 24, 2009, 05:00:55 PM

http://www.whois.net/

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: camallison on September 24, 2009, 05:07:54 PM

Thanks TD - why didn't I think of that sooner!   :-[ :-[ :-[

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: roseway on September 24, 2009, 06:53:39 PM

Or just open a command line window and type 'whois <address>'.

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: camallison on September 24, 2009, 07:42:37 PM

Quote from: roseway on September 24, 2009, 06:53:39 PM

Or just open a command line window and type 'whois <address>'.

That would be in Linux of course  ;)

Running XP here.

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: roseway on September 24, 2009, 10:41:29 PM

Surely Windows has the whois command as well, doesn't it?

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: BritBrat on September 25, 2009, 08:35:52 AM

Quote from: roseway on September 24, 2009, 10:41:29 PM

Surely Windows has the whois command as well, doesn't it?

Does not look like it.

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.


C:\Documents and Settings\NAME>whois www.bbc.co.uk
'whois' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.


I use a program called "SmartWhois" http://www.tamos.com

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: tuftedduck on September 25, 2009, 08:42:56 AM

Britbrat, you could possibly try that again.....you have a gap between who and is..........should be one word.  :)

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: camallison on September 25, 2009, 08:52:58 AM

Quote from: roseway on September 24, 2009, 10:41:29 PM

Surely Windows has the whois command as well, doesn't it?

Nope   :(

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: roseway on September 25, 2009, 09:43:06 AM

Well then, I'm quite surprised. :)

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: camallison on September 25, 2009, 09:50:17 AM

but my tiny little EEE PC that runs Linux came to the rescue - good tip!

Title: Re: Who is look ups
Post by: tickmike on September 25, 2009, 10:15:10 PM

With PCLos = "bash: whois: command not found"

With XP you have to install some software I think to get it to work.