Today’s question does not get asked enough. Perhaps that is because it seems straightforward to many experienced SEOs (although nothing in the field of SEO is ever as straight forward as it seems).

The process of searching for a website’s owner is referred to as a “WhoIs search”, as in who is the owner of a particular site or domain. The search operation is often carried out if there is any ...

Cisco security researchers recently revealed that since mid-2013, a bug in Google Apps made the WHOIS information on 282,867 domains available publically despite the fact that owners had specifically ...

When Internet regulators approved a new set of top-level domains last year, the idea was to create a piece of cyberspace that was a bit less congested than the saturated dot-com domain. But as ...

If you head over to a Whois service and search for wired.com, you'll see that this site is registered to our publisher Condé Nast at One World Trade Center in New York City. If you have your own ...

Proposed changes that would have shielded some of the personal information stored in the Internets WHOIS database from public view were indefinitely shelved last month, after a working group failed to ...

A Google Apps bug leaked hidden WHOIS registrant information in the clear, putting close to 300,000 domain owners at risk for identity theft, phishing scams and more. Google has notified hundreds of ...

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. The ...