Is there a place where you can find out what sites a person owns?

Ie, you type in a name and it comes up with a list of their websites.

[megeve]

I know about Whois, but i was wondering whether there is a place where you can just type in a person's name and it comes up with a list of the sites that they own. Or is there anything similar?

[deejay]

hi megeve

welcome to WebmasterWorld. A hint to make your time here more pleasant - only post your question to one forum. Most of us keep an eye on the 'recent posts' list and will see your question without you posting in multiple forums.

As to your question, no, not that I know of. And many of us are glad that there aren't - site copiers would have a field day.

[vkaryl]

Besides which, as someone who runs a large variety of sites both for-profit and not-for-profit, and also owns several of my own domains for various things (none of them illegal, but some of them a little off-the-wall in this largely very-religious area in which I live), I do NOT want just any schmoe off the street "tracking me down" and getting a list of all the sites I own or am admin/tech contact for. *shudders*

I'm aware privacy issues in the US are pretty different from some countries overseas, unfortunately. It's a GOOD thing that only WHOIS is available, I think....

[Llama]

My area's really religious too. After all: it's named Abbotsford (abbey has 3 dictionary definitions: 1) A monastery supervised by an abbot.
2) A convent supervised by an abbess.
3) A church that is or once was part of a monastery or convent.) and I really am annoyed at how overly.... missionary the people in my town are. I remember a month or two ago, in a conversation I said that I was athiest (don't believe in anything, or atleast not in an other-worldly force) and the person asked me why. What kind of a question is that? As if there's something wrong with not being christian?

Sorry about the tangeant.

Many webmasters will have a main domain name where they will link to websites they own. You can look in their whois report, and it'll probably list an email, and if they have a pop3 account on their main site server they'll probably use that email address and therefore the site you're looking up is bobworld.com and in the whois it'll show something like [e-mail] and then if you go to straussenbaum.com then it'll list their site. That's the closest thing to a decent answer I can give you.