WHOIS protection can cost up to $10 a year with some domain registrars, but these ones offer it for free when you buy a ...

Google leaked the complete hidden whois data attached to more than 282,000 domains registered through the company's Google Apps for Work service, a breach that could bite good and bad guys alike ...

Whois or "Who is," is a way to query for contact information (or domain name ownership information) about the person or company in control of a site. If you want to know who runs a website, you ...

The whois and jwhois command can retrieve extensive details on domain registrations including domain registrants, domain status, responsible organizations and their locations.

Security researchers who rely on data included in Web site domain name records to combat spammers and scammers will likely lose access to that information for at least six months starting at the ...

European Union privacy rules may prompt removal of personal information from Whois lookups.

You might have noticed: the GDPR and WHOIS do not combine. Internet coordinator ICANN has stated that a registrar or registry must publish WHOIS information to comply with the organization’s rules.

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 head of a US government agency has warned against over-zealous changes to the Whois internet lookup service in order to comply with the forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).