Want detailed information about a particular web site? Network Solutions has significantly enhanced their classic Whois service, providing richer information and more useful tools than most other ...

A practical joke misled many amateur investigators this week into prematurely believing that Microsoft's massive Web outage was the result of an attack. A technical glitch caused many of Microsoft's ...

The macOS command places important web domain, nameserver, and registration information at your fingertips. Here's how to make it work for you. Simple tools are often hidden at our fingertips. Like ...

Knowing the history of a domain name can help you gauge its future success. Domain names carry registration information that includes records about the owner and hosting servers. It's always a good ...

Looks like Google’s gained a new direct answer service, whois information for domains. Enter a query like whois searchengineland.com, and you’ll be told when the domain was registered and expires, ...

The issue cropped up about two weeks ago, when Google quietly launched a service allowing visitors to look up data on domain name owners from public databases — collectively known as Whois — run by ...

Every since Google became a registrar in January 2005, SEOs wondered how Google would use the whois data. In mid-February we reported that Google admitted to using registrar data to "increase the ...

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Google's John Mueller said that having a private whois domain name registration status does not change how Google trusts the site. It really does not impact the site's rankings in Google Search. He ...

A slew of services have emerged in recent months that allow bitcoin enthusiasts the ability to use bitcoin and other digital currencies to create tradeable assets. Though mostly used by curious ...