[svlug] DNS/Internic/whois Question

[Seth David Schoen]

Patrick McGovern writes:

> Hello,
> 
> This question might be slightly off topic.
> 
> There is a company called WorldWay that has registered mywebsite.com.  My
> company, My-Website.com, is about to receive a tradmark for the name.

I still enjoy your Linux shirt, and I still want to know when you start
double-sided capability... :-)

> I just discovered by accident last night that they have also registered
> MyWedding.com.  This is quite similar to another domain we hold called
> My-Wedding.com.  Obviously MyWedding.com is not business related.
> 
> Here's the question:
> I want to find out what other domain names they hold. How do I lookup this
> information?  How do I tell WHOIS to find muliple listings for a single
> company.
> 
> I tried looking up their handle, but it doesn't seem to help.  I tried many
> of the web-based lookups such as http://www.whoisnet.com/  etc...but no
> luck.

If you try "whois help", you'll get a long file giving advice on how to use
whois.

The suggestion I get from that is to run a whois search for a particular
handle, to find all records which reference that handle.  For instance,
"WD171-ORG" is one of the handles associated with the domain "mywebsite.com";
you should be able to run "whois HA WD171-ORG" to find every InterNIC
record relating to this handle.  However, it could take a _really_ long
time to get results back from this; maybe you should run it overnight
or something.

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   Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen at uclink4.berkeley.edu
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