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The registrant's (domain owner's) contact details, such as address and telephone number, are easily accessible to anyone who queries a WHOIS server. However, that policy enables spammers, direct marketers, identity thieves or other attackers to loot the directory for personal information about these people.
A domain may have multiple TXT records associated with it, provided the DNS server implementation supports this. [1] Each record can in turn have one or more character strings. [2] Traditionally these text fields were used for a variety of non-standardised uses, such as a full company or organisation name, or the address of a host.
The WHOIS protocol is still widely used to allow domain ownership records in the Internet to be easily queried. WHOIS++ attempted to address some of the short comings in the original WHOIS protocol that had become apparent over the years.
A Canonical Name (CNAME) record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that maps one domain name (an alias) to another (the canonical name). [1]This can prove convenient when running multiple services (like an FTP server and a web server, each running on different ports) from a single IP address.
Since 2009, Public Interest Registry has published a bi-annual report called "The Dashboard" [5] on the number of registered .ORG domains. There were more than 8 million registered .ORG in 2009, [4] 8.8 million in 2010, [6] and 9.6 million in 2011. [7] Public Interest Registry registered the ten millionth .org domain in June, 2012. [8]
After the seizure the domain name registry alters registered information about the domain name, including the IP address on its domain name server (DNS), as property of the U.S. government. When a user intends to access the website from a domain that has been seized, DNS servers reply with the government server's IP address.
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Markmonitor was founded in 1999 [3] in Boise, Idaho [4] and its initial business as a service provider for the protection of corporate trademarks on the Internet. In 2000, it gained ICANN accreditation status for domain registration [5] and acquired a domain management business called AllDomains the following year.