TaFWeb Software

TaFWeb Software

A UK Company
TaFWeb Whois

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

I regret that due to personal reasons I will no longer be supporting my free software (i.e. all programs except PageBuilder). The programs will remain available for downloading but I will not be updating them, nor will I be able to enter into any correspondence regarding the software.

TaFWeb Whois
Latest Version: 1.1
Purchase Details: Free

With the advent of country codes, finding out who owns a particular domain name has become quite tricky. In fact for some countries it's next to impossible. Normally programs such as TaFWeb Whois rely upon a service provided by the various domain name registrars called a "whois" service (hence the name of the software). While this is usually the most efficient way of getting the information, not all country code registrars provide this service. In many cases, however, they do provide a web-based service. TaFWeb Whois is unusual in combining both methods of getting the required information. Where a "whois" server is available it will use it. Where it isn't, and a web-based service is provided, it will use that. TaFWeb Whois is probably the most comprehensive "whois" tool available at present. It can, of course, also handle IP numbers as well as domain names.

The services provided by the country code registrars is changing all the time so TaFWeb Whois is able to update itself automatically from our web site where we will make available any changes which we can find. In this way TaFWeb Whois should remain up-to-date.

TafWeb Whois screenshot
Click the image to view the full output text

What's New in Version 1.1

Where a server is not known, TaFWeb Whois now seeks information from NORID as well as IANA and APNIC.
Some improvements to formatting of HTTP responses.
Added "Options" to right-click menu of main window.
Added an option to set timeout period for HTTP, whois and ping operations.
There is now an option to disable DNS lookup.
If DNS lookup is performed and returns no result, TaFWeb Whois retries with "ns1.", "ns." and "www." in front of domain name. This is user-customizable.
If DNS lookup finds a www server for the domain, TaFWeb Whois attempts to find the title of the home page at the site.
If DNS lookup is successful, TaFWeb Whois will attempt to "ping" the server to see if it is responding.
You can now get TaFWeb Whois to include a "reverse lookup" for a domain name where it will attempt to resolve the domain name to an IP number and then give details of the IP number ownership.
Added an option to return TaFWeb Whois to standard Windows coloring ("Options" on right-click menu).
TaFWeb Whois will now save the last results between sessions (see "Options" on right-click menu).
The program now comes with a Help file.

DOWNLOADING

The program is available from the following site:

Site 1
(http://www.tafweb-trainz.co.uk/software/whsetup.exe)
Download size: 752.2KB
Approximate Download Time
14.4K modem
9¾ minutes
28.8K modem
5 minutes
33.6K modem
4¼ minutes
56K modem
2½ minutes
ISDN (64K)
2¼ minutes
ISDN (128K)
1 minute

TaFWeb Software
London, UK
This page URL: http://www.tafwebsoftware.co.uk/whois.html
Last major revision: 9 September 2001 at 02:32 BST
Minor revisions: 4 February 2005 at 13:46 BST

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