The domain was once the official home of the authoritative WHOIS server for .mobi, a top-level domain used to indicate that a website is optimized for mobile devices. At some point—it’s not ...

The whois and jwhois command can retrieve extensive details on domain registrations including domain registrants, domain status, responsible organizations and their locations. The whois and jwhois ...

Instead, turn to the specialized WhoIs lookup tool maintained by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. When someone (a registrant) registers a domain, they have to provide the ...

of website contacts listed in WhoIs for all the world to see. There are plenty of legitimate reasons people want to protect their privacy online. Does hiding your WHOIS information hurt your ...

ICANN had wanted a year of grace to address WHOIS's data privacy problems. They didn't get it. ICANN argued, "Unless there is a moratorium, we may no longer be able to ... maintain WHOIS.

The reign of WHOIS to define domain registration may be coming to a close in the face of security issues, leading to a growing number of fraudulent Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and ...

Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process to ...