Domain Information with Whois

More information about an Internet domain reveals a Whois query. For this you could use a standard Web browser and visit the registration server to the appropriate top-level domain, such http://www.denic.de/ for Germany – that is complex and is also predicted that the correct server for the various known domains.

The work will take you from the program whois, you may need to re-install: On openSUSE, Ubuntu and Mandriva, the tool is part of the same package.

The tool is called is simple: just enter a short whois on the domain name, such as whois tagesschau.de. Interesting here is especially the first entry labeled [Holder] – the “Holder” is the domain owner.

So the news website managed by the North German Radio.

Who owns the domain “tagesschau.de,” says the command “whois”.

The entries [Admin-C], [Tech-C] and [Zone-C] give evidence of contact for certain issues, namely the domain management, technical issues and the administrator of the name servers. For foreign domains, the results look different because each top-level domain can customize the information in the Whois record your own taste. Compare this example, the answers to the Whois queries for our sister journals Linux Magazine (Germany) and Linux Magazine (UK, USA): linux-magazin.de, linux-magazine.com and linux-magazine.co.uk.

The command whois knows many options, however, can differ from a Linux version to another is. Guidance as to what options you have, why is always the local man page of the tools that you accessed with man whois.