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Just use the geektools whois:
http://www.geektools.com/whois.php

Domain Name: STARTPAGE.COM
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrar URL: http//www.networksolutions.com/en_US/
Updated Date: 2012-05-31
Creation Date: 1997-10-11
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2018-10-10
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Registrar IANA ID: 2
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: 1-800-333-7680
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: SURFBOARD HOLDING B.V
Registrant Organization: SURFBOARD HOLDING B.V
Registrant Street: ATTN insert domain name here care of Network Solutions PO Box 459
Registrant City: Drums
Registrant State: PA
Registrant Postal Code: 18222
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: 570-708-8780
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Email:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Beens, Robert
Admin Organization: Surfboard Holding BV
Admin Street: ATTN insert domain name here care of Network Solutions PO Box 459
Admin City: Drums
Admin State: PA
Admin Postal Code: 18222
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: 570-708-8780
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Email: fh7p922w7z5@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Beens, Robert
Tech Organization: Surfboard Holding BV
Tech Street: ATTN insert domain name here care of Network Solutions PO Box 459
Tech City: Drums
Tech State: PA
Tech Postal Code: 18222
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: 570-708-8780
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Email: fh7p922w7z5@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
Name Server: NS1.P27.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS2.P27.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS3.P27.DYNECT.NET
Name Server: NS4.P27.DYNECT.NET
DNSSEC:
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of whois database: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 12:52:29 UTC

http://www.geektools.com/whois.php will give you what you want.

hint [for collecting IP addresses]: At the start of each school year send out a mass email to everyone you know with your address, and ask people to reply with theirs so you can update your rolodex. I should be charging (or perhaps getting charged) for this.

Oh, and the fame and fortune they (purportedly) bring... should help you with women, too.

Too bad by the time you get to use your "amazing discoveries" (made the hard way by using the "insights" from TFA -with anonymous<gasp>submission adding to the "mystery"- rather than going the easy route through Geektools or some such), DHCP may have reassigned your "target address" from Sorority House to Astrophysics Lab...;-)

I recently had a trip to Anaheim and chose my hotel based on whether it had free high speed internet access (looked it up at GeekTels before I reserved my room) since I would be doing alot of downloading of documents for committee meetings that I had that week.

I would also plan trips to a particular airport if it had WIFI rather than nearby ones, especially if I have a layover. To fly to my parents house in Pennsylvania, I could fly into Cleveland, Erie, or Pittsburgh. I normally like Cleveland due to the lower fares, but also like Pittsburgh due to the nice shopping area with non-airport pricing and I like the airport train (which I worked on).

Try using GEEKTOOL's WHOIS query utility:

http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi

It usually does a pretty good job of determining the correct WHOIS server and does it right in this case. (onlinedns.org)

Should India and the UK and the rest of the commonwealth states share a geographical .BE (british empire) domain?

You mean like commonwealth.int?

In parts of the US, there is the STSN service. They provide a hotel locator on their website.

Wayport also has national (and international) maps of participating hotels

Some other online lists of providers can be found here, here, and here.

Of course, you want to make sure that if you invest in a wireless card it will be compatible with the hotels you most frequently stay at.

From the geektools website, check out the GeekTels section. They have over 2000 listings for the USA.

Nice try. Com.com is owned by ZDNET. zdnet.com.com resolves to the same page as zdnet.com.

No troll, but nice try to label it as such...

Please READ RFCs before becoming an expert. The section you referred to in RFC 1918 is as follows....

3. Private Address Space The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)

From the article:
"One of the obscene Web sites took information from the Salem Police Benevolent Association site and parodied it by changing words and downloading pictures from the site"

Remember the parody translation engine problems of late where companies sue people for providing jive and Sweedish Chef translations through screen-scraping? This is probably the same. Of course, the police site has no TOS that excludes screenscraping, but it does claim "all right reserved", so using (ahem) 'copyrighted' material is probably the tact they're taking--he's being charged for "misuse of computer system information," not slander or libel.

If he gets a half-assed decent attorny, 1A and fair use of information for purposed of parody should apply, nevertheless, especially since the article implys that he did not download the images from the website, just pointed to them.

It'd be a damn shame if an archive or wget extract of the offending sites got out to the general public. ;) Anyone in salem wanna dig around? The only Hemmah's WHOIS turns up aren't in salem (on'e in fargo...)

Specifically:

Geektools (a "public domain" project from CenterGate Research Group ) has:

a) a whois proxy which proxies all known tlds, including gTLDs, ccTLDs. It is available as a command line proxy at whois.geektools.com. If you send a blank request, it will display a basic help screen.

b) A web UI at GeekTools WHOIS

c) Under the software link, a generic *nix source tarball if you want to run your own local proxy. GeekTools Software .

d) Also under software, a windows binary that runs out of your system tray.

They all operate in a similar way, except that the ui version will allow you to hotlink to elements of the answer (contact, nameservers, etc).

Importantly, they know about .com .net. org. edu. .mil .gov and about 95 Country Codes automagically. It also knows about ip addresses, handles, arin records, radb policies, AS numbers, obfuscated ip addresses (spammers hack) etc.

We try and keep on top of the new whois changes around the world. If anyone can fill holes for us in the list, please email us!

We limit the number of queries per day to 50 from any ip address to thwart spammers. If you have a good legitimate reason for more queries a day, and give us your real contact information, we'll lift the restriction. Just email the address on the site.

Specifically:

Geektools (a "public domain" project from CenterGate Research Group ) has:

a) a whois proxy which proxies all known tlds, including gTLDs, ccTLDs. It is available as a command line proxy at whois.geektools.com. If you send a blank request, it will display a basic help screen.

b) A web UI at GeekTools WHOIS

c) Under the software link, a generic *nix source tarball if you want to run your own local proxy. GeekTools Software .

d) Also under software, a windows binary that runs out of your system tray.

They all operate in a similar way, except that the ui version will allow you to hotlink to elements of the answer (contact, nameservers, etc).

Importantly, they know about .com .net. org. edu. .mil .gov and about 95 Country Codes automagically. It also knows about ip addresses, handles, arin records, radb policies, AS numbers, obfuscated ip addresses (spammers hack) etc.

We try and keep on top of the new whois changes around the world. If anyone can fill holes for us in the list, please email us!

We limit the number of queries per day to 50 from any ip address to thwart spammers. If you have a good legitimate reason for more queries a day, and give us your real contact information, we'll lift the restriction. Just email the address on the site.

One-stop WHOIS

On a related note, apparently offers such a service that works irrespective of TLD. If it doesn't already work with the current splitting of generic TLD's, it surely will soon.

whois -h geektools.com domain.tld

I just alias whois="whois -h whois.geektools.com" and let the excellent Geektools whois proxy sort out which registrar. You can fling most any domain name at it, or an IP, and it'll work out the best place to get the data, then go and get it. Excellent stuff.

Alternatively, visit http://www.geektools.com/whois.html to do the same thing.

Try it out: http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=c lusterfuck.net

Netnames is good for determining availability across the various ccTLDs.

In regards to gTLDs (COM, NET, ORG), Geektools and Domainia.org do the job - they'll first query NSIRegistry and then automatically query the appropriate Whois database. Note that there's aprox a 4 day lag time between the NSIRegistry's real-time and public databases so new registrations won't showup even though they'll registered. To see CORE registrations in near real-time, query the CORE Whois server direct at whois.corenic.net port 43 and enter domain name and press Enter.

An example of an automated lookup for TITS.COM via Domainia.org:

Domain registry query for:tits.com:

Whois Server Version 1.0

Domain Name: TITS.COM
Registrar: CORE INTERNETCOUNCIL OF REGISTRARS
Whois Server: whois.corenic.net
Referral URL: www.corenic.net
Name Server: No nameserver
Updated Date: 08-jul-1999

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .ORG, .EDU domains and Registrars.

WHOIS whois.corenic.net tits.com

Ron Bennett (COCO-388) rb1000@ix.netcom.com
PO BOX 6532
Wyomissing, PA
19610-0532 US

CORE Registrar: CORE-78

Domain: tits.com
Status: production

Admin Contact: Ron Bennett (COCO-388) rb1000@ix.netcom.com
+12345678
This domain has no NameServers!

Created: 1999-07-08
Created By: CORE-78


This whois service currently only reflects registrations made through CORE as a registrar in the .com, .net and .org top-level domains.