Tracking down owner of a domain name

[patrick j]

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.

Thank you.

 

[Ben C]

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

 

[Ed Mullen]

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.

Thank you.

http://www.coolwhois.com/

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[patrick j]

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

Thank to yourself and Ed.

I've used web-site suggested by Ed and it has worked very well.