Posts Tagged With: whois
· January 27, 2008 at 8:41 am · Popular Posts, Web Hosting
Tags: ajax, dns, domains, lookup, network, Resources, whois
Here are some of the best networking tools on the Web these days:
- Network-Tools.com - Ugly interface but a little something for every network tool loving freak.
- Pingdom Tools - The best looking set of network tools, ping, traceroute and page loading tools included.
- DNS Goodies - Lots of goodies here to love from whois, ip check, ping and more.
- Traceroute.org - Need to do a traceroute from more than one location? The interface is horrible but the info is handy.
- DNS Stuff - Another list of your generic domain name tools. Also has a paid service for more perks and choices.
- My Nameserver - Tons of DNS related lookup tools here. Also good to look up abuse, domain name worth and more.
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· November 1, 2007 at 10:04 am · Hot Web Topics
Tags: aboutus, alexia, domains, privacy, private, register, security, whois
It is pretty easy to get private domain name protection on your domain name through your domain name register. This way you can hide your personal contact information from the public. One really haunting trend though I have seen on a lot of web sites is copying the whois information on domains to display on other web sites.
One service that does this is AboutUs.org.
I found out about this the other day by using DomainTools.com to do a whois lookup. I was checking to see if a domain name my friend registered was privatized and it was in the who is search but About Us still had the information listed. How sneaky!
Another offender is Alexa.com. I really hope this does not become a trend. The whois domain name search is already a big enough problem as it is - we don’t need even more places to check to make sure our private domain name information isn’t being shared with the public at large.
· May 24, 2007 at 5:00 am · Hot Web Topics
Tags: Digg, domains, investigate, links, news, records, register, whois
Call it curiosity or call it boredom.
If I owned my own cable news network, I could call it an investigation. When you tell somebody who doesn’t know about tech and Web-like things - you tell them to check out “digg” on the Web - they are going to first try “dig.com”. They aren’t going to find what they want though. Dig.com goes to a Disney Web site.
Diggg.com is also registered, although it does not go anywhere. It is owned by some guy in Norway? You can go look at the whois domain name information for yourself.
How about digggg.com? It is taken.
Work fast though, Diggggg.com is free for registration from what I could find.
