For all those who are new to whois:
"WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase who is) is a query/response protocol that is widely used for querying databases in order to determine the registrant or assignee of Internet resources, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system number." - Wikipedia
Microsoft Windows Operating Systems does not have a inbuilt whois utility. However, you can download a small whois utility from Microsoft Technet (Windows Sysinternals) to carry out a whois search.
Steps to follow:
- Navigate to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897435.aspx
- Download whois.zip from http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Whois.zip.
- Unzip the file whois.zip.
- Open command prompt.
- Navigate to the directory where you extracted the zip file.
- Execute the command in the following format:
whois domainname [whois.server]
where domainname can be either a DNS name (e.g. www.abc.com) or IP address (e.g. 11.22.11.22)
