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Whois

Whois is a protocol for sumbitting a query to a database, often used for looking up owners of registered domain names, IP Networks, or Autonomous system Numbers.

External links

RFC954[?] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc954.txt
Internic http://www.internic.net/whois

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