If you want to know the name and other information of the owner of a website or domain you must perform ‘whois’ search. If you are offered online data entry job by a website with a registration fee and you want to know the name and other information of the owner of that website you must perform this ‘whois’ search. If you want to buy a product from a site offering auctions on that product with online payments and you want to know the owner information for that website you must perform ‘whois’ search. Many situations arises while using internet to know the information of the owner of a website which can be done by using ‘whois’.
This ‘whois’ search is offered by may websites to know the information of the owner of a website like Name, Address, Email, Server Location, Ip address, Sponsoring Registrar, Name Servers used and other information. who.is is one of the websites who provide this ‘whois’ search. There are other websites like whois.domaintools.com, whois.net, dnsstuff.com and many which offers this ‘whois’ search. There will be some websites who restrict registrars from showing their information to public which cannot be retrieved by these ‘whois’ searches. However this ‘whois’ lookup is a service which is definetely helpful for internet users.

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