Software To Promote and Create Web Content

how does it work? how can i use it? answer asap pls. 1) You are the webmaster for a website about basketball. You want to invite other webmasters with sites about basketball to “trade links� with you (they will add your link on their website, and you will add their link on your website). Using the tool “WHOIS,� locate the email address of the administrative contact for 10 websites about basketball. Please post the website address, and the administrative contact below. If you do not know how to use “WHOIS,� you should research this online. 2) Compose an email to invite the webmasters whom you've identified in part 1 (above) to do a link trade with your basketball website. The email should be between 1 and 3 paragraphs in length.

It queries the DNS database for domain ownership. Its a command line tool available on most UNIX and UNIX-like platforms, there are also a number of web based interfaces for it. You shouldn't have any trouble finding one with a search engine. As for Question 1 - that's an insanely stupid thing to do since: (a) Its (borderline at least) spam and (b) The administrative contact for the domain usually is not someone with any control over the content of the website! They just manage the domain name and make sure it points at the right servers! (Sometimes they also run the website, but not usually).

WHOIS (who is) is the aptly named Internet function that allows one to query remote WHOIS databases for domain registration information. By performing a simple WHOIS search you can discover when and by whom a domain was registered, contact information, and more. A WHOIS search can also reveal the name or network mapped to a numerical IP address. Originally, WHOIS searches were performed in a command line environment and took the form, [drive]:\>whois domain.com. Searches can still be performed from the command line, but Web interface tools now make it convenient to visit a WHOIS website and simply enter the IP address or domain name. In the case of a privately owned domain, the WHOIS database contains the full name, address, telephone number, and email address of the registered owner of the domain. If the domain is owned by a business, the company name, address, email, and telephone number are listed. There are also fields for a domain administrator, technical administrator, and other contacts. The expiration date of the registration period is also listed. While the original purpose of the WHOIS database was to provide a directory for domain owners, the publicly available information opened the doors to mass spam and other abuses. The terms and conditions of WHOIS databases include a provision that the information revealed shall not be used for such purposes, but this has proven to be a rather anemic solution. To further discourage data miners, most WHOIS sites have implemented a script with a random graphic display of numbers or letters which the requester has to manually enter into a field. "Bots" or data scouring programs cannot read these graphic displays, disabling results from automated queries. Beyond precautions such as these, there is no real mechanism in place to catch, identify, or punish abusers of WHOIS information.

WHOIS is a DNS converter (IP address to domain name and back). For example WHOIS 66.94.234.13 result - yahoo.com there's a lot of free WHOIS services online.

just type in website name or ip address. it will show admin contact address and owner details..