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What is "WhoIS"

Whois is an Internet directory service used to look up names and other information from remote servers. Most commonly used to query for a company or individual's email address or domain name. For instance, if you wanted to find out more about the domain name "novell.com", a whois query would reveal information similar to the following:

Registrant:
Novell, Inc. (DOM-395574)
1800 South Novell Place
Provo UT 84606
US
Domain Name: novell.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com
Technical Contact:
Bruce Wayne (NIC-14357857)  Novell, Inc.
1800 South Novell Place
Provo UT 84606
US
Created on..............: 1989-Nov-20.
Expires on..............: 2005-Nov-19.
Record last updated on..: 2005-Jan-13 08:40:52.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS.NOVELL.COM 137.65.1.1
NS.UTAH.EDU 128.110.124.120


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