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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Google Apps bug leaked hidden WHOIS registrant information in the clear, putting close to 300,000 domain owners at risk for identity theft, phishing scams and more.