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), ...

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 ...

Summary: WhoisFreaks has achieved the rank of industry leader by achieving 625 million+ domains that are tracked in their extensive WHOIS database. Lahore, Pakistan--(Newsfile Corp. - April 2, 2024) - ...

The process of searching for a website’s owner is referred to as a “WhoIs search”, as in who is the owner of a particular site or domain. The search operation is often carried out if there is any ...

Every domain name name must be registered with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This organization is responsible for maintaining a global Internet and ensuring that ...

When Internet regulators approved a new set of top-level domains last year, the idea was to create a piece of cyberspace that was a bit less congested than the saturated dot-com domain. But as ...

Domain overseer ICANN is mounting a legal test case against a German registrar as a last-ditch attempt to protect the WHOIS master database, which identifies who owns what internet domain. The ...

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.-- And who might get “pawned” (pronounced ...

APNIC said the hashed passwords were accidentally included in the category of downloadable Whois information back in June 2017, during an upgrade of the APNIC Whois database. The organization has ...