Is there a way to find all domains belonging to an owner?

[gomer]

I would like to know if there is a way of entering an owners name to find out all the domain names that that owner has registered or owns.

For example, lets say we have a company called "ABC". Is there a way where I can type in company "ABC" and find all the domains that are registered by company ABC?

Thanks.
-gomer

[moltar]

I don't think there is a way to search for a company, but you can search by NIC Handle if that is of any help.

[ogletree]

If they put something on every website you can just type that into google. Otherwise it is just research. I found a whole nest of competiters website once. It took several hours. Sometimes you can even just search the IP range of the one site you know of. Or you can do a search for their phone number. It depends on how careful they are.

[gomer]

Thanks moltar, I did not know about the nic handle and it may help me.

I did a bit of research and found:

What is a nic handle?

Each database record has a single field (its "handle"), which uniquely identifies it. The handle is always shown in parenthesis following the record's name, which is always first thing shown as is shown below. PUBLIC, JOHN Q (JQP13) The "JQP13" is the handle.

When I looked up a certain domain, I could not find a nic handle. Does every domain registered have to have a nic handle or do just some domains have one.

What I am trying to do is look up one domain, get a nic handle and see what other domains belong to that nic handle. Does my plan sound okay or am I missing something.

Thanks.

[Imaster]

Even I would love to get that kind of information!

[cabbie]

nic handles only tell you the nic that the holding register puts on the domain to identify the owner.One person can have many nics per register and every register has a different nic for the same owner.

[gomer]

Thanks cabbie, that is too bad that nic handles aren't very useful for this purpose but it is nice to know.

ogletree, yes I did get some information about related websites through the type of research you are describing.

Can you explain a bit more about searching by IP ranges - basically, how do you do it? This may be useful in my situation as I know a single hosting company and perhaps a single server is used to host a string of websites.

[cabbie]

I believe a persons has the right to privacy so I am not inclined to help with methods that can expose people's personal information.

[gomer]

I am not asking for personal information and I am not asking for information that is obtained in dubious ways. When an entity registers a domain, they are required to give accurate and publicly available identifying information.

I am asking for information that may be able to be procured through public channels in upstanding ways. If that information is not available, I am fine with that. I don't know the answer to my question and that is why I am asking.

[Mark_A]

cabbie I tend to agree with you but I have a question for you:

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Is it possible to find out all the domans owned by anyone that is a truism in itself the question I think was actually being asked is can it be done quickly and easily to which the answer I think remains no.

:-)

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 5:21 am (utc) on May 3, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed - off topic [/edit]

[Mark_A]

and also look into history I think .. at least from some time ago :-)

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[Liane]

I have found a bee hive of activity (hundreds of sites) through street addresses and e:mail adresses ...but the real kicker is phone numbers.

People with numerous sites selling the same thing are out for money. They are clever enough to register the URLs under different names with different IP's and they often use street addresses of friends and family and (of course) different e:mail addresses are a piece of cake ... but the cheapo (money grubbing) webmaster tends to overlook phone numbers. Search the phone number(s) and you may find what you are looking for. ;) Its surprising how many are given away by the phone numbers!

Now that I have given away this little tid bit, it will make it harder to find them ... but there is one more, much more sophistictaed way to find them... but it works just as well. I'll keep that one to myself if you don't mind ;)

[gomer]

Thanks Liane, the phone number did work well in my case - just want to cover all my bases and see if there are other ways to discover sites of the same owner.

[Liane]

Glad to be of assistance Gomer. Think outside the box for other ways to find them. I only offer up one freebee at a time! :)

[ogletree]

If you see one website that is 10.134.122.4 then you can search that whole class C. Just type 10.134.122.X into your browser where X is any number between 1 and 255.

[gomer]

Thanks ogletree.