Meaning WHOIS
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A way of finding out who owns a website: essentially, a protocol which can find this information.
Source: bbc.co.uk

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An IP for finding information about resources on networks.
Source: sans.org

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A utility that returns ownership information about second-level domains.
Source: ama.org (offline)

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a utility that returns ownership information about second-level domains.
Source: marketingterms.com (offline)

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An old Internet utility that you can use to look up information about an Internet site in the registry database at Internic or elsewhere. You can enter a name like Delphi, a domain address like delphi [..]
Source: walthowe.com

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The name of the nickname database that contains full name, postal address, telephone number, and network mailbox for registered users. Also the name of the local command to access this database, and t [..]
Source: math.utah.edu

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1. An Internet program or a UNIXTM command that displays personal information ( e.g., full name, address, company name, phone number, e-mail address, and log-in status) for an account holder, which information is also used by an Internet network information center (InterNIC) to enable users to identify the existence of a given domain name or the ow [..]
Source: atis.org (offline)

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This is an Internet service that finds information about a domain name or IP address. If you enter a domain name in a WHOIS search engine, it will scour a huge database of domains and return informati [..]
Source: techterms.com

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WebGuest Dictionary Program that queries the InterNIC 's database of domain names .
Source: comptechdoc.org (offline)

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An Internet utility that returns information about a domain name or IP address. For example, if you enter a domain name such as microsoft.com, whois will return the name and address of the domain' [..]
Source: webopedia.com

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A very useful "free for public use" program located at HTTP://WWW.WHOIS.NET that queries several databases of domain names. Want to put a home page up at www.insertyournamehere.com? Better check whois to make sure that the name is not taken. If it is taken, the utility will return information about the owner.
Source: csgnetwork.com (offline)

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This is an Internet service that finds information about a domain name or IP address. HTTP://WWW.WHOIS.NET
Source: consp.com

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An Internet program which allows users to query databases of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks, and hosts. The information for people generally shows a person's company name, address, phone number and email address.
Source: www-rohan.sdsu.edu (offline)

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The record of a domain that contains ownership data such as name, address, etc. Many registrars offer services to hide this Whois data.
Source: webpagefx.com

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A whois lookup determines whether a domain name is registered and if so, provides the contact information for the domain name (except in the case of private registration, where the contact information [..]
Source: elbelconsultingservices.com

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Each domain has an owner of record. Ownership data is stored in the Whois record for that domain.
Source: seobook.com

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This is an Internet service that finds information about a domain name or IP address. If you enter a domain name in a WHOIS search engine, it will scour a huge database of domains and return informati [..]
Source: pc.net

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Whois is a protocol for submitting a query to a database for determining the owner of a domain name, an IP network, or an autonomous system number.
Source: webmasterglossary.net (offline)

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A way to look up names in a remote database, helpful for finding e-mail addresses for people at large organizations or companies. You can also use Whois to find out whether a domain name is available. [..]
Source: dwarfnet.com

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A Unix utility to find out who owns a given domain name or IP (Internet Protocol). menu IP Owner IP From Domain Name Domain Owner Domain/IP Location Face IP Links Whois There are five common questions [..]
Source: mindprod.com

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a service or command that can be used to look up information about who is connected to the Internet; for example, to look up the owner of a domain name or to see the IP address behind an IRC nickname
Source: cogipas.com

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An internet program which allows users to query a database of people and other internet entities, such as domains, networks, and hosts, kept at the DNN NIC. The information shows a persons or company& [..]
Source: jimspages.com

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A WHOIS database is an Internet utility that may be used to find certain proscribed contact information about each domain name registration registered through a particular registrar or registry. The information provided by a WHOIS database may include the relevant contact information for the registrant, administrative contact and technical contact [..]
Source: business.telus.com (offline)

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An Internet program which allows users to query a database of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks and hosts.
Source: portal.chicagonettech.com (offline)

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An Internet program which allows users to query a database of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks, and hosts, kept at the NIC. The information for people shows a person's company name, address, phone number and email address.
Source: virtualschool.edu (offline)

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A program located at http://internic.net/cgi-bin/whois that queries the InterNIC's database of domain names. Want to put a home page up at www.insertyournamehere.com? Better check whois to make sure that the name is not taken.
Source: netdictionary.com (offline)

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A Unix or Linux command that you can execute in a terminal session in order to find out who owns a domain. For example, whois cpanel.net returns the ownership information for cPanel.
Source: documentation.cpanel.net (offline)

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Whois is an Internet service and protocol that searches and displays information pertaining to a domain name from repositories of domain name registrars worldwide. Whois service is a free Internet ser [..]
Source: techopedia.com

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Query a whois or nicname database, see Section 10.2.6.4
Source: tldp.org

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A TCP/IP utility that lets you query compatible servers for detailed information about other Internet users.
Source: pmel.org (offline)

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Method for system administrators to obtain contact information for IP addresses, assignments or domain name administrators.
Source: electronic-payments.co.uk (offline)

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An Internet protocol for finding information about Internet servers and domains. An Internet protocol for finding information about a currently-online IRC user. Any computer program (client) used [..]
Source: en.wiktionary.org

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WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase who is) is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a doma [..]
Source: en.wikipedia.org

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WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase who is) is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a doma [..]
Source: en.wikipedia.org

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WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase who is) is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a doma [..]
Source: en.wikipedia.org





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