Information Gathering with Whois
As I have mentioned earlier, our goal in the information gathering and enumeration phase is to
gather as much information as possible about the target. Whois holds a huge database that contains information regarding almost every website that is on the web, most common information
are “who owns the website” and “the e-mail of the owner,” which can be used to perform social
engineering attacks.
Whois database is accessible on whois.domaintools.com. It’s also available in BackTrack. but
you would need to issue the following command from BackTrack to enable it:
apt-get install whois
In order to perform a Whois search on a website, you would need to type Whois <domainname>
from the command line:
whois www.whois.com
As I have mentioned earlier, our goal in the information gathering and enumeration phase is to
gather as much information as possible about the target. Whois holds a huge database that contains information regarding almost every website that is on the web, most common information
are “who owns the website” and “the e-mail of the owner,” which can be used to perform social
engineering attacks.
Whois database is accessible on whois.domaintools.com. It’s also available in BackTrack. but
you would need to issue the following command from BackTrack to enable it:
apt-get install whois
In order to perform a Whois search on a website, you would need to type Whois <domainname>
from the command line:
whois www.whois.com
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