[FlatHead]

Is there a simple way to find out who owns/operates a web/forum site??

 

[Jason]

What kind of informaiton are you looking for? You can always do a whois on the domian name.

 

[FlatHead]

Is there a thread that explains on how to perform a "who is"?

 

[Jason]

You can do a whois on most major domain regiesters. Here is 000domains.

http://resellers.000domains.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi

 

[FlatHead]

Much appreciated, Muchisimas gracias!

 

[Pseudocyber]

Go to http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois and put in the website name and domain like:

Domain Name: TECHSUPPORTFORUM.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Name Server: NS.HMDNS.NET
Name Server: NS2.HMDNS.NET
Updated Date: 14-apr-2002

Then go to where it refers you to ... and put it in again, which would give you ...

Registrant:
Connors Web Designs
4410 Grandwood lane
New Port Richey, FL 34653
US

Domain Name: TECHSUPPORTFORUM.COM

Administrative Contact:
Connors, Jason [email protected]
4410 Grandwood lane
New Port Richey, FL 34653
US
727-372-8196

Technical Contact:
Domain, Registration [email protected]
PO Box 17352
Little Rock, AR 72222-7352
US
501-708-0009
Fax: 501-954-7379



Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 11-Mar-2002.
Record expires on 18-Jan-2003.
Record Created on 18-Jan-2002.

Domain servers in listed order:
NS.HMDNS.NET 216.118.72.3
NS2.HMDNS.NET 216.118.72.4

This is about as far as you can go easily. You could do further searching through business registrations, trademarks, etc.

HTH

 

[FlatHead]

Thank you, learn something new every day

 

[Basementgeek]

This 8 year old thread is closed.

BG