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   Whois
   WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase who is) is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system, but is also used for a wider range of other ...
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   whois
   pronounced 'who is' - a utility which interrogates the Internet domain name administration system and returns ownership and other details of the specified domain name
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   WHOIS
   An Internet program which allows users to query a database of people and other Internet entities.
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   whois
   An Internet directory service for looking up names of people on a remote server. Many servers respond to TCP queries on port 43, in a manner roughly analogous to the DDN NIC whois service described in RFC 954. Other sites provide this directory service via the finger protocol or accept queries by ...
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