Help on whois-reports.

[Suicidal666]

Hi there!

I'll be honest with all of you, I'm basically a complete newbie here, I've read a bunch of tutorials but that's about it...now...I used the WHOIS search on your site, and entered my homepage just as a test....and something showed up, but I'm not sure what it is......could you help??...I'll copy and paste...

Results for www.xtra.co.nz :% New Zealand Domain Name Registry Limited
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version: 0.95
query_datetime: 2003-03-13T10:05:52+13:00
domain_name: www.xtra.co.nz
query_status: 500 Invalid characters in query string
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% Users are advised that the following activities are strictly forbidden.
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% Using multiple WHOIS queries, or using the output of multiple WHOIS
% queries in conjunction with any other facility or service, to enable
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% Using any information contained in the WHOIS query output to attempt a
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[ChrisWuk]

It basically just gives you information on who owns the site name, for examply, type in microsoft.com and it gives you this :-

Registrant:
Microsoft Corporation (MICROSOFT-DOM)
1 microsoft way
redmond, WA 98052
US

Domain Name: MICROSOFT.COM

Administrative Contact:
Microsoft Corp (EPMKOEAUSO) [email protected]
Microsoft Corp
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US
425 882 8080
Technical Contact:
Microsoft (EJSEHEQUAO) [email protected]
Microsoft
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US
425-882-8080

Record expires on 03-May-2012.
Record created on 02-May-1991.
Database last updated on 12-Mar-2003 16:28:40 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

DNS1.CP.MSFT.NET 207.46.138.20
DNS3.UK.MSFT.NET 213.199.144.151
DNS1.SJ.MSFT.NET 65.54.248.222
DNS1.DC.MSFT.NET 207.68.128.151
DNS1.TK.MSFT.NET 207.46.245.230

[HTRegz]

Suicidal. the problem with your attempt was the www.

Whois is for looking up domains.... www. is a subdomain on the domain xtra.co.nz.. you always have to cut it down to the domain and u can only find out who owns that, because what an owner does with their subdomains is entirely up to them..

If you go back to the Whois Lookup and put just xtra.co.nz you'll see all the information that whois will provide about that domain