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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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...

  4. 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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