Understanding a WhoIs search is a useful skill to add to your repertoire. By John Kennedy. Published Mar 18, 2021 4:45 PM EDT.

Whois, an online database that contains personal information about Internet domain name holders, is a major contributor to identity theft and defies advice from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC ...

The humor aside, the rogue WHOIS server gave him powers he never should have had. One of the greatest was the ability to dictate the email address certificate authority GlobalSign used to ...

A search for "Microsoft.com" using any of several of the Whois servers, which list information on each domain name on the Internet, returned 23 other domain names as well, such as: MICROSOFT.COM ...

Network Solutions has blocked Google's service allowing visitors to look up data on domain name owners. Domain name registrar Network Solutions has a message for Google: don't mess with our Whois.

In fighting spam and other forms of Internet and e-mail abuse, many defenders of the ‘Net have noticed that the worst offenders often include obviously false information in their WHOIS database ...

If the headline seems like a typographical error, it's not. The verb "to pwn" is Internet-speak for "to own by cyberattack." Fifteen-year-old hackers use it.-- ...