By Garth O. Bruen

Discusses the evolution of WHOIS and the way coverage alterations will have an effect on WHOIS’ position in IT this present day and within the future

This e-book offers a finished assessment of WHOIS. The textual content starts with an advent to WHOIS and an in-depth insurance of its forty-year historical past. Afterwards it examines how one can use WHOIS and the way WHOIS suits within the total constitution of the area identify procedure (DNS). different technical themes lined contain WHOIS question code and WHOIS server info. The publication additionally discusses present coverage advancements and implementations, studies severe coverage files, and explains how they'll have an effect on the way forward for the web and WHOIS. extra assets and content material updates could be supplied via a supplementary website.

• Includes an appendix with details on present and authoritative WHOIS prone round the world
• Provides illustrations of tangible WHOIS documents and screenshots of web-based WHOIS question interfaces with directions for navigating them
• Explains community dependencies and tactics concerning WHOIS using flowcharts
• Contains complicated coding for programmers
• Visit the book's better half web site http://whois.knujon.com for technical and coverage records bearing on WHOIS, WHOIS code examples, web destinations for WHOIS databases and more.

WHOIS operating the web: Protocol, coverage, and Privacy is written essentially for net builders, coverage builders, execs in legislations enforcement, electronic forensic investigators, and highbrow estate attorneys.

Garth O. Bruen is a web coverage and defense researcher whose paintings has been released within the Wall road magazine and the Washington publish. on account that 2012 Garth Bruen has served because the North American At-Large Chair to the net company of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In 2003 Bruen created KnujOn.com along with his past due father, Dr. Robert Bruen, to strategy and examine web abuse court cases (SPAM) from shoppers. Bruen has expert and instructed legislation enforcement on the federal and native degrees on malicious use of the area identify process within the method it pertains to the WHOIS list procedure. He has awarded a number of instances to the excessive know-how Crime research organization (HTCIA) in addition to different cybercrime venues together with the Anti-Phishing operating staff (APWG) and the nationwide middle for Justice and the rule of thumb of legislations on the college of Mississippi tuition of legislations. Bruen additionally teaches the Fisher collage legal Justice college in Boston the place he develops new ways to electronic crime.