The process of searching for a website’s owner is referred to as a “WhoIs search”, as in who is the owner of a particular site or domain. The search operation is often carried out if there is any ...

Today’s question does not get asked enough. Perhaps that is because it seems straightforward to many experienced SEOs (although nothing in the field of SEO is ever as straight forward as it seems).

As discussed in our November 2018 tIPsheet, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in effect and has caused businesses in the United States and abroad to contemplate how they are ...

Domain name registrars and registries might soon be changing their mantra from, “I think ICANN,” to, “Maybe ICANN’T,” when it comes to providing publicly available WHOIS information for domain name ...

The launch of seven new top-level domains is again highlighting concerns about the thoroughness and privacy of publicly searchable databases. Whois, a database that contains personal contact ...

Cisco security researchers recently revealed that since mid-2013, a bug in Google Apps made the WHOIS information on 282,867 domains available publically despite the fact that owners had specifically ...

Proposed changes that would have shielded some of the personal information stored in the Internets WHOIS database from public view were indefinitely shelved last month, after a working group failed to ...

When Internet regulators approved a new set of top-level domains last year, the idea was to create a piece of cyberspace that was a bit less congested than the saturated dot-com domain. But as ...

An ICANN working group interim report to make Whois information generally unavailable to the general public is getting some coverage in non-domainer publications over the last couple of days Basically ...