Posted by Ben C on 01/17/07 18:08

On 2007-01-17, patrick j <patrick@jamesnews.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm going to be creating a web-site for a friend who has an unusual
> name but is very well known in her particular field.
>
> Because her name is unusual I thought it was quite likely that a domain
> with her name would be available but I've discovered that it is not for
> the .com extension.
>
> I have tried the URL in a browser and there is currently no site for
> that URL but clearly someone owns it.
>
> Is there any way by which I could find out who owns this domain name?
>
> Fortunately it is available with .co.uk and .org extensions but it
> would be nice to have .com.

You can use a program called "whois". You just type "whois
whatever.com".

If you don't have the program there are websites that will do it for
you. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois

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