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Table Of Contents  The TCP/IP Guide
 9  TCP/IP Application Layer Protocols, Services and Applications (OSI Layers 5, 6 and 7)
      9  TCP/IP Key Applications and Application Protocols
           9  TCP/IP Administration and Troubleshooting Utilities and Protocols

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TCP/IP DNS Registry Database Lookup Utility (whois/nicname)
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Sample whois Output

Table 295 shows the sample output of the whois command on a FreeBSD UNIX machine (I have stripped out some of the preliminary general information and legal disclaimers to keep the table down to size).


Table 295: DNS Domain Registry Lookup Using the whois Program

%whois pcguide.com
Registrant:
The PC Guide
2080 Harwood Hill Road
Bennington, VT 05201
US

ixl@fearn.pair.com
+1.8025555555

Domain Name: PCGUIDE.COM

Administrative & Technical Contact:
Charles Kozierok
The PC Guide
2080 Harwood Hill Road
Bennington, VT 05201
US

ixl@fearn.pair.com
+1.8025555555

Domain Name Servers:
NS23.PAIR.COM
NS0.NS0.COM

Created: August 25, 1997
Modified: July 7, 2003
Expires: August 24, 2008

** Register Now at http://www.pairNIC.com/ **


In this case, the registrar of the domain “pcguide.com” is pairNIC, the DNS registry division of pair Networks, the company I have used for Web hosting for many years (since 1997, as you can see). This output is public information, and lets anyone who has an interest in pcguide.com, for whatever reason, determine that I own the domain and learn how to contact me. (That is obviously not my real phone number, of course.) It also tells them that pair Networks runs the name servers that contain domain information for my domain.


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