Posts Tagged Whois

The Danger of Innacurate Whois Info

Recently I was looking for the site of someone I met at Elite Retreat last year and ended up typing www.cpaaffiliates.com to get to his site, CPA Affiliates, instead of the correct address, www.cpa-affiliates.com. What I got was the old Server Not Found error. I realized that I had forgotten the dash in the domain name, but it got me wondering who owned the better, non-dash name. I knew ... Keep reading »

What Happens if Whois is Worthless?

Peter gives away some great advice in Domain Name Shopping at DMOZ & ODP -- so good that I hesitate to draw any more attention to it. Seeing as how it's already out there, though, I thought I'd go ahead and add one thing that he left out. Sometimes the whois information for a domain can be worthless. Either the domain owner has decided to pay for a private registration or the ... Keep reading »