From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 6 10: 0:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840D537B419 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:00:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NHb6-0009RD-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 06 Jan 2002 18:00:40 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386), from userid 500) id BCB88117A; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:00:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:00:39 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: Find registered domain contact person Message-ID: <20020106180039.GC1631@raggedclown.net> References: <20020106172200.GA1316@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020106172200.GA1316@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:22:00PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:44:40AM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > Looking for command that uses the domain name as > > input and does a lookup at the registry and returns > > the registered information containing the contact > > person's name, and address. > > I can do this with a program I have on my windows box, > > so there must be something like this for FBSD. > > Can anybody point me in the right direction. > > > > > whois > -- Having said that I wouldn't put too much faith in the accuracy of the information you receive. I have been trying for a year to get my contact address changed for my domain registration to reflect a new address, without any success whatsoever. The free-for-all that Domain registration has become has made it an administrative disaster, trying to get a domain rehoused in a finite period of time is another challenging experience. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message