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Google Gets Whois Answers In Search Results

Went Hot: April 20, 2008 - 10:32 am
Posted By: DavidWallace 441 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching

Danny Sullivan writes, "Looks like Google's gained a new direct answer service, whois information for domains. Enter a query like whois searchengineland.com, and you'll be told when the domain was registered and expires, along with a link to more information from the Domain Tools site."

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from SeoMyVideo 441 days ago #

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I can't believe that they have "partnered" with a site the does an SEO analysis upon clicking? http://www.domaintools.com/seo-score/

from KevinCheng 440 days ago #

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I don't see the feature on google.ca yet, maybe it's just me...

from spyros 439 days ago #

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I tried this with .com TLDs and it works. I tried it also with .gr (Greek TLD) and it doesn't work. It doesn't seem to work with .eu and .org either. Maybe this will be incorporated later.
@KevinCheng, I think it only works on Google.com and only for some TLDs.

from beussery 435 days ago #

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Another facet to this story is that domaintools.com may or may not honor a Google user's request! A number of users from Google receive the following at whois.domaintools.com:

"Security : Anonymous user may be too resource intensive. You have reached your daily lookup limit as an guest user. Please login or register."

Is Google writing checks domaintools.com can't cash?

from beussery 431 days ago #

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Check out my related sphinn on DomainTools ads passing PageRank via direct non-nofollowed links to advertisers! Yep, that's right...