In fighting spam and other forms of Internet and e-mail abuse, many defenders of the ‘Net have noticed that the worst offenders often include obviously false information in their WHOIS database ...

APNIC said the hashed passwords were accidentally included in the category of downloadable Whois information back in June 2017, during an upgrade of the APNIC Whois database. The organization has ...

Want detailed information about a particular web site? Network Solutions has significantly enhanced their classic Whois service, providing richer information and more useful tools than most other ...

Domain overseer ICANN is mounting a legal test case against a German registrar as a last-ditch attempt to protect the WHOIS master database, which identifies who owns what internet domain. The ...

The issue cropped up about two weeks ago, when Google quietly launched a service allowing visitors to look up data on domain name owners from public databases — collectively known as Whois — run by ...