Research: Looking for an alternative to whois to find out details about website owners? Try Quarkbase, which offers contact details and profile information about a site, such as inbound links and traffic analysis. Tipster: Laura Oliver. To submit a tip to Journalism.co.uk, use this link - we will pa...

Back in August of 2007, Sciencetext reported on WhoIsHostingThis, which looked like an interesting tool with which to analyze a website. Toni Allen recently got in touch and asked if he could update readers on the latest system upgrades and to highlight the differences between WiHT and other webmast...

From Insite, the journalism research site: a post about tracking site or domain owners. Colin Meek’s tactics could help save time by alerting you to linked content and commentary, and helping you trace a domain or site owner. “Looking for strategies to find out about people behind sites?...

Online speuren naar personen en feiten over personen kan iedereen. Met behulp van websites als Wieowie of Politiebronnen (voorheen Furillo) bijvoorbeeld, of, voor informatie over beheerders van websites, op sites als Whois Lookup . De achtergronden van Twitteraars of leden van Friendfeed worden ook ...

Did a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions drown the shores of the Black Sea 9,500 years ago, wiping out early Neolithic settlements around its perimeter? read more...

Several years ago, I purchased a domain for our family. Upon doing the prerequisite search, we ultimately settled on a .net name. Not our first choice, but it was what was available. On 1 January, I got an email from a company called Zip Domains on my admin email address: Our company specializes in ...

Although many of you probably use mobile or desktop clients such as Twibble or Tweetdeck to access Twitter, if you are using Twitter in your browser, and want to find out a little more about a Twitter user, there’s a faster way than visiting their profile. Just type ‘whois username ̵...

Last week I covered AbouThiSite, a mashup that was designed to take a domain and give the user a variety of information on it including traffic estimations, PageRank and more. But while AbouThiSite was interesting, its data is woefully incomplete, forcing me to continue relying on other sites for mo...

Mashups, like any other technology, have the potential to be used for bad and for good. They can hurt Webmasters when done incorrectly or help them when done right. AbouThiSite attempts to be one of latter kind of mashups, providing valuable information about a target domain at the click of a button...

What’s in a domain? When building your new website or blog - having the best possible domain is a key factor that adds to your success.    When selecting a domain, people generally will take the following factors into account : Easy to remember. Standardized spelling (except for this whole ...