Whois Question

[Joe]

If you wanted to look up the registrant information on a website/domain name, but you did NOT want to use networksolutions.com, which /whois service would you use?

 

[Second Summer]

Any one, really ... gandi.net has one, for example. I think maybe due to some recent changes in the way this works, not all DNS providers have a (full) copy of everyone else's information, so you may have to go to the actual DNS provider of the website on which you want information to get the full record.

 

[Joe]

Any one, really ... gandi.net has one, for example.

Ah, thank you.

I think maybe due to some recent changes in the way this works, not all DNS providers have a (full) copy of everyone else's information, so you may have to go to the actual DNS provider of the website on which you want information to get the full record.

And how does one determine the DNS Provider of a website?

BTW, the reason I am asking about this is that I am the registrant of a domain name. But I want to turn this duty over to someone else, a woman named Rachel. Rachel wanted the domain name registration transferred to Joker.com , which I did. But I wanted to check the /whois before proceeding to Step Two, which is to transfer the registration to Rachel. Networksolutions.com (which is what I generally use) was making this process difficult, because when I ran the /whois, it provided no information but just a link that basically said: Are you the owner of this site? Do you want to renew it? If so, click here.

BTW, the GoDaddy /whois seems to indicate that everything is hunky dory.

 

[Second Summer]

And how does one determine the DNS Provider of a website?

The easiest might be to just google "whois name-of-domain". That seems to work for me for "difficult" domains.

Glad to hear it's working for you!

 

[Joe]

The easiest might be to just google "whois name-of-domain". That seems to work for me for "difficult" domains.

Very interesting. I've never tried that.

 

[Calliegirl]

You can also use:
Whois Lookup & IP | Whois.net
WHOIS Search, Domain Name, Website, and IP Tools - Who.is

I usually use the first one to look-up owners.

 

[Joe]

You can also use:
Whois Lookup & IP | Whois.net
WHOIS Search, Domain Name, Website, and IP Tools - Who.is

I usually use the first one to look-up owners.

Thanks, Callie! I just did not know that these resources were/are available.