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| From | Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Other tools like "whois"? |
| Date | 2022-11-11 18:17 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <tkm3j2$snkc$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <tkm296$t8qr$1@dont-email.me> <87wn81pdzm.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> |
On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:01:17 -0500, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:54:47 -0000 (UTC), pH wrote: >> >> I heard about an outfit called "undocufund.org" on the local college radio >> station. >> >> Seems they collect and give money to illegal aliens since they are "unfairly >> left out" of State and Federal benefit programs and they entreat you to send >> them money. >> >> (This would drive my mom basllistic, as we used to say. She was a legal >> immigrant from Latvia and insisted that everyone who wanted in should wait >> his turn and go through the hoops and jumps she had to.) >> >> Curious, I used "whois" to see info about these guys. >> >> Here's part of the output: >> Domain Name: undocufund.org >> Registry Domain ID: 3a2a7cc5edf44d768125e125dfaba031-LROR >> Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.tucows.com >> Registrar URL: http://www.tucows.com >> Updated Date: 2022-09-04T16:46:54Z >> Creation Date: 2017-10-14T20:38:29Z >> Registry Expiry Date: 2023-10-14T20:38:29Z >> Registrar: Tucows Domains Inc. >> Registrar IANA ID: 69 >> Registrar Abuse Contact Email: domainabuse@tucows.com >> Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4165350123 >> Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited >> Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited >> Registry Registrant ID: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY >> Registrant Name: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY >> Registrant Organization: North Bay Organizing Project >> Registrant Street: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY >> Registrant City: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY >> Registrant State/Province: CA >> Registrant Postal Code: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY >> Registrant Country: US >> Registrant Phone: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY >> ... >> >> The REDACTED part is new to me...are there any other tools besides whois to >> help me satisfy my curiousity? >> >> I guess I'll go visit the actual website...duh...but it's nice to have a >> Linuxy question. > > That's probably because of the General Data Protection Regulation > (GDPR). Thus you need to visit their website to get more information. This sort of whois masking predates the GDPR. Many TLD registration bodies (such as CIRA for .ca domains) instituted "domain privacy" rules in the early 2000's (2008, for CIRA, for example) to cut down on identity theft and personal detail harvesting from whois records. -- Lew Pitcher "In Skills, We Trust"
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Other tools like "whois"? pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2022-11-11 17:54 +0000
Re: Other tools like "whois"? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-11-11 13:01 -0500
Re: Other tools like "whois"? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-11-11 18:17 +0000
Re: Other tools like "whois"? pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2022-11-11 18:41 +0000
Re: Other tools like "whois"? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2022-11-11 14:39 -0500
Re: Other tools like "whois"? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2022-11-11 23:50 -0500
Re: Other tools like "whois"? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2022-11-11 18:52 +0000
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