Whois is a
means of looking up names in a remote database. Used initially as an aid for
finding e-mail addresses for people at large institutions or companies. In
the domain name world, whois services are used to find out the status and
details of a specific domain name.
whois is a
program that will tell you the owner of any second-level domain name who has
registered it in any of the domain registrars.
Network Solutions & Verisign:
In the
past all registrations were done by network solutions. Later
Network
Solutions was acquired by Verisign.
whois
can also be used to find out whether a domain name is available or has
already been taken. If you enter a domain name you are considering to buy and the
search result is show up as available, domain name is likely to be available and
you can apply to register it.
Few years back, the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers) has opened up domain name registration to a number of other
companies. To search all of these companies at the same time for
registration information, you can use betterwhois.
whoi.sc
This is a remarkable free service where you can monitor
the domain names of interest. They also have a tool to receive domain name
suggestions. Whis.sc, accessible through website
whois.sc is a service that helps you investigate thoroughly about
any website in question.
You can do a simple registration on the site and add
lot of domains for monitoring. They will send you e-mail notifications on
the basis of the changes taking place to the status of these domains.
The Whois Source Domain Explorer lets you search for
domain information in several ways. Among domain lookup services,
whois.sc
is really distinct due the many features they offer which other lookups do
not.