Whois, an online database that contains personal information about Internet domain name holders, is a major contributor to identity theft and defies advice from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ...

Summary: WhoisFreaks has achieved the rank of industry leader by achieving 625 million+ domains that are tracked in their extensive WHOIS database. Lahore, Pakistan--(Newsfile Corp. - April 2, 2024) - ...

In fighting spam and other forms of Internet and e-mail abuse, many defenders of the ‘Net have noticed that the worst offenders often include obviously false information in their WHOIS database ...

The Whois database may disappear. An Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers committee is considering a sunset proposal at its meeting this week in Los Angeles that would effectively scrap ...

As discussed in our November 2018 tIPsheet, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in effect and has caused businesses in the United States and abroad to contemplate how they are ...

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 organization has ...

If the headline seems like a typographical error, it's not. The verb "to pwn" is Internet-speak for "to own by cyberattack." Fifteen-year-old hackers use it.-- And who might get “pawned” (pronounced ...

Domain overseer ICANN is mounting a legal test case against a German registrar as a last-ditch attempt to protect the WHOIS master database, which identifies who owns what internet domain. The ...