"Reverse" whois?
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sheepy

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3,164 posts

279 months

Friday 11th August 2006
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Does anyone know if there is a form of "reverse" whois? I know the name of the company, and I'm curious about what domains it holds. Anyone got an idea of how I can find out?

Sheepy

BliarOut

72,863 posts

269 months

Friday 11th August 2006
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www.dnsstuff.com ?

Too lazy to go and have a look myself

thepassenger

6,962 posts

265 months

Friday 11th August 2006
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*scratches head*
Not sure, if dnsstuff doesn't prove useful I'd suggest looking at the companies public records (assuming a PLC or whatever). A website should equate to property or at least an asset.

gopher

5,160 posts

289 months

Friday 11th August 2006
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Just to get this right, do you mean a whois lookup based on the company that has registered the name (using I assume a Registrant name or address or admin contact name etc) to see what other domain names they have registered?

sheepy

Original Poster:

3,164 posts

279 months

Friday 11th August 2006
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gopher said:
Just to get this right, do you mean a whois lookup based on the company that has registered the name (using I assume a Registrant name or address or admin contact name etc) to see what other domain names they have registered?

My company has sold the part I work in to a bunch of investors. We're trying to find out what our new company name will be. I was kind of guessing that they've probably already bought the internet domains.

gopher

5,160 posts

289 months

Friday 11th August 2006
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sheepy said:
gopher said:
Just to get this right, do you mean a whois lookup based on the company that has registered the name (using I assume a Registrant name or address or admin contact name etc) to see what other domain names they have registered?

My company has sold the part I work in to a bunch of investors. We're trying to find out what our new company name will be. I was kind of guessing that they've probably already bought the internet domains.


In which case I would say probably not, we were building a product that would have eventually have provided this type of functionality, but was dropped as costing too much even for our large corporate clients to pay for. Which was a shame because I spent bleedin ages working on a whois parser.

JamieBeeston

9,294 posts

295 months

Friday 11th August 2006
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only way is to pay each registry for a copy of their 'then' database..

last check this was £x0,000 per time you wanted a copy, per registry, then you'd have to search for any matching string.

J