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How to identity who is scraping my website?

I have an e-commerce website, hosted on AWS. I understand there are tools that prevent/block the scraping bots. But is it possible to detect who is scraping my website? I mean, would I be able to detect the requests are coming from a bot, then find…
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Find domain details if whois is empty

Is it possible to find out domain data if whois(from many different whois services) are empty. And how can i protect my own domains from whois? Thanks.
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Does "Registry Domain ID" change on transfer

Can the Registry Domain ID be used to track if a domain still belongs to the same registrant (except for ownership changes) if transferred to a different registrar?
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Simple Whois Question

If I download whois data from these five servers: ARIN: http://ws.arin.net/whois RIPE NCC: http://www.ripe.net/whois/ APNIC: http://whois.apnic.net LACNIC: http://whois.lacnic.net AfriNIC: http://whois.afrinic.net Would that be all the whois data?
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Expiry of domain from zone file

I've read that a domain may appear in a daily zone file on multiple days through some change to the dns record. Unfortunately, the source didn't explain the circumstances of when it appears in the daily file. Could anybody enlighten me on…
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Is it possible to know who hosts a website using cmd only?

I read similar questions but I didn't find something similar to what I'm asking. Suppose that we want to know who hosts a particular website knowing the domain name using the cmd only. I found many web interfaces to do it, so for example I put the…
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Dig DNS vs Whois

I have a client that has their name services done through some third part. The domain was registered through Godaddy (yet a different third party). The name service provider had their domain names hijacked (don't know how) so the name servers my…
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40.96.18.165 keeps visiting my web server

Something/someone from 40.96.18.165 has been hitting my web server exactly eight times a day everyday since Feb 5, 2017. The user agent used is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0). Look ups will show the IP address is from…
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Is there any rate limit when using the whois command on ips?

The data returned by whois ip-address appears to be very useful and more accurate than the data I get from the maxmind geoip databsae I am currently using. Where does the data come from and are there any rate limits? Of course I will cache…
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What is the public whois server for .IN.NET domain names?

If I am going to be performing a Whois lookup for a domain name with the extension .IN.NET, which whois server should I connect to? For example, for .com domain names, I would format my whois query as follows: whois -h whois.verisign-grs.com…
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How can I know where my server is located (physically speaking)?

I would like to know where my server is physically based. Is there tools that are available to get this informations (latitude/longitude) from command line (GNU/Linux) ?
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How to get ns records that are registered to ip adress

I have ip ranges. I would like to find ns addresses that are pointing to corresponding ip adress I'm looking for a command to do over nslookup or dig Expected result http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=70.84.87.146&type=nameserver…
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retrieve the real domain owner

is there anyway to retrieve the real domain owner to contact them/him/her to start a bid with ? Cause if i use whois.net site it sends me to resellers sites then resellers send me to other sites then to other sites, really unbelievable. thanks
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How does the domain name system know the authoritative nameserver for my domain name?

Note: Someone linked to Why does DNS work the way it does? as a possible duplicate. But this link does not answer my question. Specifically, this link does not describe where exactly a regular domain name buyer like me (who has no DNS administration…
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Are there alternatives to the 'who.is' website?

I'm looking for alternatives to who.is. I tried the following Linux commands: host -a dig example.nl ANY nslookup example.nl -all But none display all the information, just as in who.is website, DNS records and all. I would love a all-in-one…
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