• How to find out who owns that website you hate

    PUBLIC DEFENDER

    Brian Livingston

    By Brian Livingston

    Sometimes, you really want to look up the email address or phone number of whoever owns a particular website or domain name.

    Unfortunately, this is becoming more difficult as various “privacy” services attempt to hide this information from the global WhoIs system. Surprisingly often, these cloaking mechanisms fail to provide website owners with true security and actual privacy — while seriously frustrating the rest of us.

    Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.08.0 (2022-02-21).