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NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MARK GIBBS on WEB APPLICATIONS
Today's focus: Researching domains
By Mark Gibbs 09/12/02
I don't know about you but I find myself researching domains with monotonous regularity. And while VeriSign provides a multiple domain WHOIS service the format of the results depends on which registry the data comes from and the searches offered are the most basic (essentially just secondary and top level domains with no wild card searching). More ...
So, if you'd like a better and far more useful service, check out Whois Report. WIR offers all sorts of really slick features, including:
- Searches of historic domains.
- Searches of current domains.
- Searches of historic and current domains combined.
- Displays of results color-coded by Web site status.
- An option to exclude numbers or hyphens.
- Displays COM, NET, ORG, BIZ, INFO, and US top level domains.
- Wild card searching.
- Multiple keyword searching.
- Enhanced Whois capability.
- Block keywords.
- Search for domains with keywords in the same order.
- Option to block domain longer then 25+ characters.
The home page offers a search interface that implicitly supports substring searches (enter "gibbs" and you get a paginated list of all domain names that include the string). If you enter a top-level domain name it will be stripped off automatically.
The output format is terrific: Each results page (you can choose from 20, 40, 60 or 100 results per page) has a line for each matched secondary domain and columns for the main secondary domains (COM, NET, ORG, INFO, BIZ and US). Under each TLD the column is split into two entries: a link named "w" for WHOIS information and another named "v" to view the Web site.
You can find out which domains are most active on the information page, also take a look at Daily Changes.
WIR also allows Web sites to host their own search page for remote searching of whoisreports that only requires you to include the "powered by" link. And if you want a really powerful interface to the service, the company offers an API. WIR has an interesting business model: "We do not sell nor do we advertise, our goal is to be the best domain searching tool. We will only make money by licensing our API to ICANN Registrars so they can build sites like this one."
A round of applause to WhoisReport.com - Way cool.
Copyright Network World, Inc., 2002 |
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The .NET Architecture Center
IT professionals can easily be overwhelmed by the mass of technical information that's available on the Web and in myriad other formats, and separating the informational wheat from the chaff can be a real challenge. You have to figure out how to meld together a jumble of random white papers, Microsoft articles, and newsgroup discussions to create a cohesive body of information that will help you do your job effectively. Often, the only difference between an expert and other technical professionals is that an expert has more time to hunt down arcane information. More ...
I've beat this drum many times in the past, and although I don't fault Microsoft for providing too much information, I do think the company could provide more best-practices-style information to knit together the wealth of information that's spread across numerous Microsoft knowledge sources. So I was pleased when I recently stumbled across an MSDN site that seems to pull much of this information together, the .NET Architecture Center.
Don't let the .NET moniker fool you. This site includes plenty of valuable technical information related to SQL Server and data management. The site's welcome message says the Architecture Center is "devoted to business, software, and infrastructure architects." The Center includes content from Microsoft product teams, MSDN, TechNet, and Microsoft's new Architecture Review Board and serves multiple perspectives of enterprise architecture. The Center also provides a way for Microsoft to provide architectural guidance, announce new architectural content on MSDN and TechNet, and highlight community events such as architecture Webcasts.
The vision of the site's developers is ambitious, and keeping the site up-to-date with relevant best practices won't be easy. I'm taking an I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it approach. But I applaud Microsoft for recognizing the need for a site such as this one. At first glance, the content seems strong. I'll point out nuggets of interest to the SQL Server community in future editions of SQL Server Magazine UPDATE. Does the site live up to the lofty goals outlined above? Spend some time at the site when you have a chance and let me know what you think.
SQL Server Magazine UPDATE, September 12, 2002
Copyright 2002, Penton Media, Inc.
Brian Moran, news editor, brianm@sqlmag.com
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