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How to Check Whois & Domain OwnerShip Information

I need to find out a websites owner information because he has listed some defaming information on his website about our company. His About Page does not reveal everything, how can i know the real contact details and the owner of the domain name. Is there any other solution other than check out their About Page or Contact Page?

First of all you dont have to worry because most of the domain names have Public Whois Information which means that their Ownership Information is totally available on the Internet and anyone with a basic internet usage skills can find out everything. The Best source for this is DomainTools.com which is a website which can help you with the ultimate domain name related tools. The website would offer you with a service called - Domain Name Whois Search with the following options.

Just search with any full domain name in the search box as 'HowToLists.com' and you will get a full detail page with all the owner details. The Information would be listed on different Category Basis which starts from the Domain Name / Websites Front Page Information which consists of the Title of the Website, Meta Tags, Images hosted on the Homepage with the total number of Links along with their Attributes like Internal Links and OutBound Links.

The Next Category would be on Indexed Data which would represent the Alexa Rank along with the Ranks Trend for the last 3/6 monts Followed by this is the Registry Data which shows the ICANN Registrar of the Domain Name and when was it Registered and when does the Domain Name Expired. Here you will also find the NameServers of this domain name which represends the Web Hosting Company and in case if the website owner does not reply you, you can directly contact the web hosting company if its a serious issue.

Following this you will find the Server Information, ie the IP Address of the website along with the location where the Server is Hosted and the Registrants Information which would have the Name, Contact Details etc. Just take a note of all this information and get you job done. Sometimes the Website Owners would hide their Whois Information from the Public which is also called as Private Domain Name Registration and in this case you need to look for other tools to get the information and in most cases you need to contact the Registrar for contacting the domain name owner.