Owners of websites

Berger

I know theres a way to find out who owns a certain site but I've no idea of how to do it. Can anyone shed some light on this please?

RobertFoster

http://www.whois.sc/

Cabaal

http://www.dnsstuff.com
Alot more options,

axel90

register.com or if you goto somewhere like gnr.cc and enter an address if its not available you can click for info ie.. whois

chump

F**kin hell, my name address and phone number can be accessed that way.. anything I can do to stop that?

The Muppet

chump wrote:

Fukkin hell, my name address and phone number can be accessed that way.. anything I can do to stop that?

Yep you can register your domain privately . godaddy.com will do it for you if you wish.

Wez

Godaddy don't seem to.. I checked my forum and my mates mum's details came up.. (she pays the hosting by c/c)

MartMax

i have domains with namecheap.com and they do masking on whois details. last time i registered a new domain, i got a free mask. I also pay for other domain masking, and the good deal is that i can switch around the masks for any domain i have.

Berger

Brilliant, thanks everyone.

colm_c

Wez wrote:

Godaddy don't seem to.. I checked my forum and my mates mum's details came up.. (she pays the hosting by c/c)

With Godaddy.com it's an extra charge... I think it's called 'private domain' or something. The standard Godaddy account doesn't hide the details.

halenger

You should be able to just change the details.
I used be able to back when I was with register.com.

^whitey^

I just enter incomplete/false details. Never had any hassle. Your supposed to provide real details though.

L1011

The Muppet wrote:

Yep you can register your domain privately . godaddy.com will do it for you if you wish.

Dunno what ICANN think of this, and its almost certain that GoDaddy would give your details out to any human who asked almost instantly

^whitey^ wrote:

I just enter incomplete/false details. Never had any hassle. Your supposed to provide real details though.

Bye bye domain if the root NIC finds out you've done that.

^whitey^

Meh 2 years and they havent found, you can pay an extra fee to most hosters (word?) to mask your details.

loz

why not just use your work or office details ? - you have to add in some correct contact details though ( with register anyhow )

zap

what's the big problem like anyway with your details being there, if ya really wanted it - there is load sof othe rplaces you could get it from.


Shouldn't the name of this thread be - owner's of domains?

mneylon

^whitey^ wrote:

I just enter incomplete/false details. Never had any hassle. Your supposed to provide real details though.

That's in clear breach of ICANN rules and can lead to the domain being suspended.
Up until about a year ago they did not check. These days they do.

Most companies can provide an obfuscation service at an extra fee, although there is some controversy surrounding this in relation to .us domains:
http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2005/03/04/us-whois-privacy/

mneylon

RobertFoster wrote:

http://www.whois.sc/

That only works with com/net/org/info/biz/us

SantaHoe

zap wrote:

Shouldn't the name of this thread be - owner's of domains?

No.