Domain owner searches

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Domain owner searches

Can they be done?

TheVisitor

1:52 pm on Nov 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

There is quite some fuss at the moment about the SE's taking a look at domain ownership via WHOIS and factoring the information found there into spam algos. My question is this - is there a way to search WHOIS specifically by owner name?

davezan

2:41 pm on Nov 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

Nope.

dauction

4:51 pm on Nov 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

Not exactly true dave

[whois.us...]

It's not only possible but dot.us even allows it..

Webwork

5:31 pm on Nov 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

Download a dump of the zone files and drill down into the data? I thought this is how the big boys/girls do it.

TheVisitor

9:24 am on Dec 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

Many thanks for the replies

davezan

1:53 pm on Dec 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

Not exactly true dave
[whois.us...]
It's not only possible but dot.us even allows it..

Oh that. But that's only for .US domains, of course.

Webwork

3:20 pm on Dec 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

My zone file comment appears to be dated:

[answers.google.com...]

Chances are you've seen complete WhoIs templates in the Google Serps. I've seen them for my own domains and the domains of many others.

Since Google's spider records URL I'm certain there's little additional effort to extract the root domain and then perform a WhoIs look up, then store and analyze that data.

There are some ways (I've heard of but never used) to back into 'who owns what' by exploring their domain name server records. This, as you can imagine, has its limitations.