WHOIS BY EMAIL
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WHOIS is another tool that can be used to Search for domain name; NIC
handle; host IP or lastname, firstname.
The default action for Whois, unless directed otherwise with a keyword
(e.g. "domain root"), is to do a very broad search, looking for matches
in many fields: handle, name, or hostname and finding all record types.
Let's say we want to find someone named Gerald Boyd (a noted e-mail
personality). Our Whois query will be addressed to a webmail server and
will contain only this one long line:
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?
STRING=name+boyd%2C+gerald&STRING=Search
Whois then shows the results in one of two ways: as a full, detailed
display for a single match (with possible subdisplay), or as one- or
two-line summaries for multiple matches.
Boyd, Gerald ([11]GBL149) gboyd@PF1HELP.COM (770) 4
13-9456
Boyd, Gerald ([12]GBY218) geboyd@EARTHLINK.NET 1-818-8
46-2478
Boyd, Gerald ([13]GB8307) gerald@PF1HELP.COM 770-4
13-9456
To single out one record, look it up with "!xxx", where xxx is the
handle, shown in parenthesis following the name, which comes first.