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Sunday 4 December 2011

Beginners Guide in Whois Domain Lookup

By Jon Johnson


As of now, countless online marketers are becoming successful in the Internet world. Although this is sure a good thing, still there are some online marketers that are not knowledgeable about their website's privacy and security. Because of this, spammers and hackers can easily attack their website, which leads them to successfully get valuable information they need in order to damage the website and gain profit. This could only mean that they are taking full advantage of the Whois domain lookup.

Whois serves as a highly effective tool that can be very useful in checking the owner of the website's domain name, email address as well as contain information. Although it is true that the given information is not that good, you should also know the other side of the coin. Since Whois serves as a big help in gathering needed information from the owner, it can be legally used by all Internet users to look for an available domain name as well as to contact those owners of websites so as to gain information regarding their online business.

Now, if in the case you would want to look for an available domain name in the Internet, all you have to do here is to go over to a domain registrar or to a web hosting provider. In this way, they are able to provide you their whois lookup tool and check if the domain name you want is 100 per cent available in the Internet world. Keep in mind that of you already have your own web hosting provider, better check with them and they will give you the information you want if in the case you will make another domain name for another website.

Besides this, the use of whois lookup is to get information of the website owner, DNS setting, IP address and even the expiration date of the domain name. Well, with regards to the expiration date of the domain name you are able to acquire that domain name if the owner decides to let go of it. Keep in mind that the information you would want to acquire should be legitimate since you don't want to be considered as a hacker.

Bear in mind that when you obtain the information of website owner make sure that it is done legally so as to prevent you from being suspected as a hacker. Also, always remember that you can absolutely inquire for a whois domain lookup with all web hosting providers available online. Just be sure that you have chosen a good domain name for your website legally so you can start building your own website.




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