John Berryhill made this insightful post about Whois search in a domainer community I belong to that I feel everyone should read:

"If you are using a web page to do whois searches, you are doing whois searches wrong.

The correct way to do a whois search is on port 43 first to the registry, and then to the registrar's port 43 whois.

There is a client program which does this automagically:

http://www.geektools.com/tools.php

The geektools whois client.

I have used it extensively for years, and it is bomb-proof.

There is utterly no way for anyone to know, on your say-so, whether a web-based whois search is being "watched" since what, exactly, is being "watched" may be something other than the input to that stream. You may have spyware, browser plug-ins, etc. that are monitoring what you type into any web page, so anyone is going to deny that their whois is watched.

If what you are looking for is domain availability, then you don't want to be using whois, but digg or some other program which directly queries the zone server."

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written by ACCER, November 09, 2008

I know what you mean. I have also used it for years without a problem and love it. It's quick, easy and effective.

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written by justontime, November 10, 2008

I didn't know that thanks for the information, I am learning loads on this site.

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written by flowerhorn08, November 11, 2008

Why is it wrong to do a whois search using a webpage? Is it because we would be tracked? And how do I go about doing the search manually? How do I do it through port 43? I am using Windows XP.

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