The agency that runs the Internet’s technical infrastructure—ICANN—is mulling a plan pushed by the entertainment industry that could dramatically limit the use of proxy registration services that mask ...

More than five years after domain name registrars started redacting personal data from all public domain registration records, the non-profit organization overseeing the domain industry has introduced ...

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

It’s not every day that a security researcher acquires the ability to generate counterfeit HTTPS certificates, track email activity, and the position to execute code of his choice on thousands of ...

The macOS command places important web domain, nameserver, and registration information at your fingertips. Here's how to make it work for you. Simple tools are often hidden at our fingertips. Like ...

The reign of WHOIS to define domain registration may be coming to a close in the face of security issues, leading to a growing number of fraudulent Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates and ...

When you register a domain, the registrar has your identifying information. However, you can choose domain privacy protection if you don’t want the names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. of website ...

Google's John Mueller said that having a private whois domain name registration status does not change how Google trusts the site. It really does not impact the site's rankings in Google Search. He ...

Buying a domain name is often an exciting experience, whether it’s your very first domain or the 100th! But before you get to that, there are two less fun tasks to go through: the first is to find the ...