The whois and the jwhois commands work pretty much the same way. The jwhois command is newer, more configurable, and maybe even faster than whois. Both query WHOIS servers from the Linux command line.

-l Only print results from the last WHOIS server queried. -p port Connect to the whois server on port. If this option is not specified, jswhois defaults to port 43. -v Be verbose. Can be specified ...

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 ...

The WHOIS protocol dates back to the early 1980s when it was standardized, but the first WHOIS service was actually set up on ARPANET, the precursor of the internet.

A WHOIS lookup is the process of querying a WHOIS database to retrieve registration details about a domain name, IP address, or autonomous system. It helps users find out who owns a domain, when it ...

What the whois command does. The whois command permits discovering administrative and technical information for a web domain (using .com, .net, and .edu domain extensions) or even a public IP address.

But, taken overall, it is a logical, commonsense approach to dealing with the Whois issue – and one that should have been put in place more than a decade ago. We go now to the UK Meanwhile, talking of ...