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Can you tell who own's an IP address? Like a whois lookup but for IPs

I'm renting a VPS from a company and I wanted to not be associated with this IP. Mostly for free speech reasons (life blog) to prevent doxxing. Anyway I registered the domain privately, and I rented a separate VPS just for this site/others that need…
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Why nslookup or dig doesn't return nameservers for certain domains?

Why nslookup or dig doesn't return nameservers for certain domains? Example: dig @8.8.8.8 NS zzy.pl ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u10-Raspbian <<>> @8.8.8.8 NS zzy.pl ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY,…
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What's the meaning of "blocked_word: CG" in whois?

A customer says they want to park a domain with us. In theory, they should have registered that domain already. But when I look it up with whois, I get this: jcastro@localhost:~$ whois notactuallythedomaininquestion.br % Copyright (c) Nic.br % The…
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Hundreds of the same IP Address in survey

In my business we have surveys about corporations (kinda like yelp). When we looked at the IP Addresses of those who voted, there where several hundred from the same 4 IP Addresses. I looked those up on a "whois" service and they were all registered…
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whois records for nameserver, how and why?

How are whois-records for nameservers handled? There are websites with searchfuntion for whois-nameservrs, like: https://who.is/nameserver/ How do I get my own nameserver to be searchable? Why should I want my nameserver to be searchable? What…
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How to be sure that a domain name is not already taken?

I'm looking forward to register the domain in with the .IQ extension like (game.iq). But I wonder if those domains are all listed in the global WHO.IS services? The problem is this domain requires a special registering in Iraq (Yes, it's a the local…
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Registering domain with NIC handle?

Many moons ago I was a system administrator for a small company. I vaguely remember that when I registered domains, they would be using a "handle" which I think was for me "BP897". My previous employer is now having issues with some of the domains…
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digging an IP gives me an unregistered domain name, why?

I get spam all the time (what a surprise!) and once in a while I check the IP address to see where it comes from (i.e. .cn, .cz, .pl, etc.) Today I was surprised as I found the output of dig to be: promtp# dig -x…
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Exist a way to make gTLD servers update its NS records for a given domain?

I changed the DNS servers for a given domain and still days after that change gTLD continue replying a set of NS records that include the old NS entries. dig @g.gtld-servers.net. example.com ns return six records, four are the new records and…
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Pass arguments to a persistent telnet sessions

I have a whois service, which allows me to telnet to it and keep the telnet connection open without any time limit on it. I have to do thousands of whois through that telnet session. For example, to whois a domain, i do echo "mydomain.com"; sleep…
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Get registrar name, expiration date and print for which domain it is

I have a bunch of domains (77) at different registrars like netsol, goDaddy, etc. I want to get the expiration date, registrant and registrar for each of them. Since everyone has their own WHOIS database and different output format, I am not able to…
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Finding out which Hosting Provider they are with?

From a domain or IP, how to find out which Hosting Provider they have signed up with? I did whois on IP and it said it come from net2ez.com but I like to find out which third party Web Hosting (or Dedicated/VPS Hosting) they are with..
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Ubuntu whois package and request limits

I'm writing a django app with a form that accepts an IP and does a whois lookup on the discovered domain names. I've found the Ubuntu package whois which I plan to call from a python subprocess, and read the stdout into a StringIO, then parse for…
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whois returns correct changed date but wrong nameservers

I was just told by 1&1 customer support that "the date in the whois could show correctly while the nameservers information being the old one" I though the whole document was stamped at once, not "built" from different data sources. Am I being lied…
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Changing nameserver entry - who is responsible

I have a DNS entry which should be changed. In detail, the nameserver are in the company itself. Now this should be changed because the nameserver should not be used anymore. If I make a WHOIS request I see the following: Domain owner is a hosting…
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