Questions tagged [whois]
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Methods of obtaining administrative e-mail contact for a domain
I know two methods of obtaining this:
whois registrar record
SOA DNS record
However, when signing up for an e-mail feedback loop program, the ISP came back with the e-mail address of one of our managers as the contact. That e-mail address does not…

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How to get ip prefixes from children of given as number?
So, for example I have as number as10282 how I can get ip prefixes of children for the given as number?
bgp lookup tool
Given tool is exactly what I need (with ticked include downstream prefixes), but I need to implement it in my application, how…

shake
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WHOIS privacy help
How do I protect my identy from whois? If someone whois's my domain name, it reveals my name, address etc etc. How do I hide this?

oshirowanen
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ICANN Domain Grace Period for expired domains
Recently my domain has expired (2 weeks ago)
According to the ICANN website: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/errp-2013-02-28-en, it says the following:
3.1. With the exception of sponsored gTLD registries, all gTLD registries must offer a…

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how can I know since when has a BGP prefix been allocated?
I am a bit confused.
I would like to know since when a current ASN (and its corresponding prefixes) have been in place.
When I look at the example at team-cymru (http://www.team-cymru.com/IP-ASN-mapping.html) I see:
$ whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v…

ℕʘʘḆḽḘ
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nameservers reported by whois cannot be found by nslookup
The nameservers of my domain are listed correctly on the whois entry:
whois destiglobal.com | grep NS
gives the following result:
Name Server: HEATHER.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: OWEN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
but a nameserver search with dig does not…

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My domain whois admin contact is pointing to a nonexistent email address
I've registered a domain name with OldRegistar. I've used the private whois information option, that meant the admin contact was set to a proxy email address that forwarded to my real email address.
I've transferred the domain name from the…

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Network Scan, Filtering for Top Level Domain
Greetings,
I have a list of 2 /24s worth of IP addresses in seperate text files. What I am interested in doing is finding a way to resolve the hosts of these IP addresses and filter out to display only the top level domain.
for example; 192.168.1.1…

Nick O'Neil
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CentOS 6.9, jwhois incomplete output
From some days I noticing a strange whois output under CentOS 6.9 with .com domains:
whois google.com
[Interrogando whois.verisign-grs.com]
[whois.verisign-grs.com]
Domain Name: GOOGLE.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2138514_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
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Tsumi
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Migrating DNS provider when having high NS-record TTL
I have recently migrated one of my .com-domain zones from DNS provider A to DNS provider B, however the TTL on the NS-records for the zone on provider A is very high = 432000 (5 days), and thus I feel sad thinking that I might have to keep (and…

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Getting the ISP for sending a DMCA Takedown Notice from IP address or domain name
There is this site which is cloning our project "pixabay.com" in basically everything: contents, layout, etc. We would like to send a DMCA Takedown Notice to their ISP. However, when looking up the violating domain "maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com",…

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Arvixe claims that my physical host is located in Europe eventhough the whois information
When I look whois of the site it seems like located in US.
My site is: www.evdore.com.
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2 hos-tr1.juniper1.rz13.hetzner.de 213.239.224.1 de 0.145 ms
hos-tr4.juniper2.rz13.hetzner.de 213.239.224.97 de 0.277 ms …

Ertugrul
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High CPU usage by whois | CentOs 6
I am not a server guy and currently maintaining a small server for my own needs (Development and testing).
I got a notification that my Server CPU usuage is around 99% from last 3+ hours.I know that this is quite personal site to me and I have never…

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Who is hosting it?
Currently I have couple static IPs from my ISP where I host couple websites, my question is if I go to http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ and I check my domain then I get that my ISP is hosting them. How does that work? Thanks
Josh Darrow
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Is it possible to have my Company to be assigned to IP address
I have no idea how IP allocation works, but I rented VPS from one provider along with 5 IP addresses, now this provider hosts servers at Dimenoc.
When I see whois record for my IP address, I see Dimehost's information there. Is it possible for me…

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