Every domain name name must be registered with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This organization is responsible for maintaining a global Internet and ensuring that ...

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 process of searching for a website’s owner is referred to as a “WhoIs search”, as in who is the owner of a particular site or domain. The search operation is often carried out if there is any ...

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 ...

Security researchers are frustrated that they need to pay money to learn details about domain names ending in .name, as reported in today's Wired News, but the company in charge says the policy ...

When Internet regulators approved a new set of top-level domains last year, the idea was to create a piece of cyberspace that was a bit less congested than the saturated dot-com domain. But as ...

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 ...