Certificate authorities and browser makers are planning to end the use of WHOIS data verifying domain ownership following a report that demonstrated how threat actors could abuse the process to obtain ...

It’s not every day that a security researcher acquires the ability to generate counterfeit HTTPS certificates, track email activity, and the position to execute code of his choice on thousands of ...

More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit organization overseeing the domain industry has introduced ...

The whois and jwhois command can retrieve extensive details on domain registrations including domain registrants, domain status, responsible organizations and their locations. The whois and jwhois ...

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The macOS command places important web domain, nameserver, and registration information at your fingertips. Here’s how to make it work for you. Simple tools are often hidden at our fingertips. Like ...

I use DomainTools on a daily basis for domain name research. From learning about domain names that changed hands to tracking the history of domain name Whois records, DomainTools offers some of the ...

When you register a domain, the registrar has your identifying information. However, you can choose domain privacy protection if you don’t want the names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. of website ...

A few years ago, GoDaddy began blocking Whois lookups from third party websites. For instance, when I do a Whois search using DomainTools to find a registrant email address, if a domain name is ...