Information Industry–Dialog
Dialog Set to Launch a “Very Searchable” Version of the WHOIS Database
It’s taken many years but finally a major online vendor, Dialog, is set to launch a version of the WHOIS domain name registration database (file 225) available. Cool! For a long time I have thought that WHOIS would be a very useful marketing (who owns what), competitive intelligence (what names were recently added/deleted), and business research tool if you could perform a variety of searches and get more than 25 results. According to Dialog the new database will have up to 78 indexable fields and contain historic WHOIS data. I hope to have more to say after I spend some time “trying out” the new product. An upcoming “must read article” will be Mary Ellen Bates review of the new resource in an upcoming issue of Online.
See Also: Genie Tyburski’s article, “Find Domain Names Owned By Companies or Individuals”
The article offers several search tips including info on record availability as well as links two to services currently offering a WHOIS database.

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