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Network Solutions Overhauls Whois Results

Posted by timothy on from the now-it-needs-orkut-style-linking dept.

Robert Accettura writes "Network Solutions has updated its whois interface, giving it an interesting new twist. On top of regular info provided, it shows data that appears to be from Alexa, including a screenshot of the homepage (though not terribly recent), as well as looks up your IP, and displays lots of information on it. It even shows the server type, if it supports SSL, DMOZ, Yahoo listing, traffic ranking, and lock status. This comes right after they announced rapid DNS updates. Perhaps they are trying to win over the geeks before they turn on sitefinder?"

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  1. Re:Or maybe... by kbranch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unless I'm missing something here, the Virtual Boy was made by Nintendo.

  2. screenshot of the homepage by powerpuffgirls · · Score: 5, Informative

    Whois.sc displays screenshot of website homepage at least a couple of months ago.

    1. Re:screenshot of the homepage by Davak · · Score: 4, Informative

      whois.sc is much more attractive and accurate.

      For example, whois.sc actually tells how many yahoo links a site has. (Slash has 288 DMOZ and 22 yahoo links? Holy cow!)

      netsol just has a link to the yahoo search...

      plus whois.sc is so much easier... just add the domain name to the end of the url you want to search...

      http://whois.sc/slashdot.org
      http://whois.sc/cn n.com

      netsol doesn't give you this easy ability...

      I'm sticking with whois.sc

      Davak

    2. Re:screenshot of the homepage by 1u3hr · · Score: 3, Informative
      whois also "hides" the email address. Netsol puts it out there for everybody to read.

      Because they want to extort more money from you to hide it:

      random domain info
      Add Private Registration: $9 a year per domain
      Keep your registration information for assadasfdas.com out of the hands of spammers and telemarketers with Private Registration.

  3. VeriSign and Network Solutions are not the same by darthcamaro · · Score: 4, Informative

    The poster got this a bit mixed up. The DNS updates are a VeriSign issue...Network Solutions, though once a VeriSign company is a completely seperate company now.

  4. Not original... by Yaa+101 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think they got it from here:

    http://www.whois.sc/

    I use that for quite a while now...

  5. banned! by urban_gorilla · · Score: 5, Informative
    awesome. after one query on our own hostname
    BLACKLISTED: You have exceeded the query limit for your IP address and have been blacklisted. This restriction will be removed in 24 hours.
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  6. Re:Well, they got the geolocation wrong for my sit by Nintendork · · Score: 2, Informative
    Well this would be why it places you in Chicago. That's the netblock containing the IP that kravlor.com resolves to.

    One thing that interests me is that it says my company's web server is Apache. We switched to IIS6 like two months ago.

    -Lucas

  7. Re:Only for NS Hosted Domains by cgenman · · Score: 2, Informative

    And in some respects the Tucows approach is better. A Network Solutions query shows all my details directly. Tucows requires a query to input a grahpics based password so it is harder to harvest the info.

    It's odd, but Network Solutions required the same thing up until this launched. I guess it was just more cost effective to let people scan the db. I've been using whois.net from the opera command line with much success, but every time in the past year I came across a bloody Network Solutions domain I'd have to break what I was doing and enter their silly cipher. Well, whois.net still doesn't query NS's database directly, but at least I can skip the 4757298B step.

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  8. Probably got sued by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    They used to require you pass a captcha to get the information about the domain

    And then one of the following probably happened: either somebody with less than perfect sight sued NSI under some sort of Americans with Disabilities Act, or Hewlett-Packard "gently reminded" NSI of U.S. Patent 6,195,698. (Read More...)

  9. Re:Well, they got the geolocation wrong for my sit by aonaran · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...and a second search for the same domain turned up "US(UNITED STATES)-WASHINGTON-BELLINGHAM"

    Not even consistant wrong answers.

  10. More info by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 2, Informative

    The VeriSign/NetSol merger was big news, but apparently the spinoff wasn't. I didn't even know about it until it was mentioned in the rapid DNS update thread.

    Nov. 26, 2003: Pivotal Private Equity Acquires Network Solutions. "Pivotal Private Equity announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire control of Network Solutions, the world's largest domain name registrar, for $100 million. ... Pivotal Private Equity will acquire the firm from VeriSign Inc. ... VeriSign will retain a minority interest in Network Solutions and retain its registry business."

  11. Re:Alexa Violating Copyrights by ceejayoz · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.google.com/remove.html#images