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Methods of obtaining administrative e-mail contact for a domain

I know two methods of obtaining this: whois registrar record SOA DNS record However, when signing up for an e-mail feedback loop program, the ISP came back with the e-mail address of one of our managers as the contact. That e-mail address does not…
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How to get ip prefixes from children of given as number?

So, for example I have as number as10282 how I can get ip prefixes of children for the given as number? bgp lookup tool Given tool is exactly what I need (with ticked include downstream prefixes), but I need to implement it in my application, how…
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WHOIS privacy help

How do I protect my identy from whois? If someone whois's my domain name, it reveals my name, address etc etc. How do I hide this?
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Is there a rate limit, or any sort of limit to calling whois in ubuntu 10.04?

I'm using Ubunutu 10.04 and doing whois queries on a list of domains. I've got very limited knowledge about the whois system and have some specific questions that I've found difficult to find specific answers on. I'm not even sure if this is the…
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ICANN Domain Grace Period for expired domains

Recently my domain has expired (2 weeks ago) According to the ICANN website: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/errp-2013-02-28-en, it says the following: 3.1. With the exception of sponsored gTLD registries, all gTLD registries must offer a…
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how can I know since when has a BGP prefix been allocated?

I am a bit confused. I would like to know since when a current ASN (and its corresponding prefixes) have been in place. When I look at the example at team-cymru (http://www.team-cymru.com/IP-ASN-mapping.html) I see: $ whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v…
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nameservers reported by whois cannot be found by nslookup

The nameservers of my domain are listed correctly on the whois entry: whois destiglobal.com | grep NS gives the following result: Name Server: HEATHER.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM Name Server: OWEN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM but a nameserver search with dig does not…
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My domain whois admin contact is pointing to a nonexistent email address

I've registered a domain name with OldRegistar. I've used the private whois information option, that meant the admin contact was set to a proxy email address that forwarded to my real email address. I've transferred the domain name from the…
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Network Scan, Filtering for Top Level Domain

Greetings, I have a list of 2 /24s worth of IP addresses in seperate text files. What I am interested in doing is finding a way to resolve the hosts of these IP addresses and filter out to display only the top level domain. for example; 192.168.1.1…
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CentOS 6.9, jwhois incomplete output

From some days I noticing a strange whois output under CentOS 6.9 with .com domains: whois google.com [Interrogando whois.verisign-grs.com] [whois.verisign-grs.com] Domain Name: GOOGLE.COM Registry Domain ID: 2138514_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN …
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Migrating DNS provider when having high NS-record TTL

I have recently migrated one of my .com-domain zones from DNS provider A to DNS provider B, however the TTL on the NS-records for the zone on provider A is very high = 432000 (5 days), and thus I feel sad thinking that I might have to keep (and…
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Getting the ISP for sending a DMCA Takedown Notice from IP address or domain name

There is this site which is cloning our project "pixabay.com" in basically everything: contents, layout, etc. We would like to send a DMCA Takedown Notice to their ISP. However, when looking up the violating domain "maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com",…
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Arvixe claims that my physical host is located in Europe eventhough the whois information

When I look whois of the site it seems like located in US. My site is: www.evdore.com. 1 * * * 2 hos-tr1.juniper1.rz13.hetzner.de 213.239.224.1 de 0.145 ms hos-tr4.juniper2.rz13.hetzner.de 213.239.224.97 de 0.277 ms …
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High CPU usage by whois | CentOs 6

I am not a server guy and currently maintaining a small server for my own needs (Development and testing). I got a notification that my Server CPU usuage is around 99% from last 3+ hours.I know that this is quite personal site to me and I have never…
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Who is hosting it?

Currently I have couple static IPs from my ISP where I host couple websites, my question is if I go to http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ and I check my domain then I get that my ISP is hosting them. How does that work? Thanks
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