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GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company [3] headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated in Delaware. [4]
123 Reg is a British domain registrar and web hosting company founded in 2000 and now under the ultimate ownership of GoDaddy.The company claims to be the UK's largest [2] accredited [3] domain registrar and provides Internet services to small- and medium-sized business.
Domains by Proxy offers domain privacy services through partner domain registrars such as GoDaddy and Wild West Domains. [ 3 ] Subscribers list Domains by Proxy as their administrative and technical contacts in the Internet's WHOIS database, thereby delegating responsibility for managing unsolicited contacts from third parties and keeping the ...
On January 24, 2007, GoDaddy deactivated the domain of computer security site Seclists.org, taking 250,000 pages of security content offline. [9] The shutdown resulted from a complaint from Myspace to GoDaddy regarding 56,000 usernames and passwords posted a week earlier to the full-disclosure mailing list and archived on the Seclists.org site as well as many other websites.
Reverse lookup is a procedure of using a value to retrieve a unique key in an associative array. [1] Applications of reverse lookup include reverse DNS lookup, which provides the domain name associated with a particular IP address, [2] reverse telephone directory, which provides the name of the entity associated with a particular telephone ...
In 1993 the U.S. Department of Commerce, in conjunction with several public and private entities, created InterNIC to maintain a central database that contains all the registered domain names and the associated IP addresses in the U.S. (other countries maintain their own NICs (Network Information Centers) -- there is a link below that discusses Canada's system, for example).
Domain hijacking is analogous with theft, in that the original owner is deprived of the benefits of the domain, but theft traditionally relates to concrete goods such as jewelry and electronics, whereas domain name ownership is stored only in the digital state of the domain name registry, a network of computers.