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July 16, 2007
For Immediate Release
For more information contact:
Software Institutehttp://www.softinsti tute.com/
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If you have a domain name, you can use one of the numerous Whois tools to determineits owner. Whois provides complete information about the owner of any domain name,up to the level of mailing addresses and telephone numbers. But what if you don thave a domain name? What if all you have is a mere IP address? Or what if you don tneed information about the domain name, but are much more interested in who owns theWeb server where it s hosted? Such information is much more useful shall you need tofile an email spam complaint or report a DoS attack. If you are processing creditcard orders online, you already know that knowing the owner, or at least thecountry, of an IP address is vital part of any good fraud check. If you receive andorder to ship to Kansas or Minnesota, but their IP address is in Algeria or Nigeria,you might get substantial savings by catching this timely and not shipping theorder!
Quite often it is very possible to determine the owner, or, rather, the assignee, ofan IP address. IP addresses in North America are assigned by ARIN, an independent,nonprofit corporation that provides IP registration. It is possible to unveildetails about the organization that uses a particular IP address, or, to be precise,a block of IP addresses.
There are no tools that come with Windows which can look up information about an IPaddress. Instead, you can visit ARIN database, learn about its query syntax, andfire up search on an IP address. If the address does not belong to the NorthAmerican block, you will quite often see only the basic information specifying thecountry and organization responsible for assigning IP addresses there. To discoverowner information of your original IP address, you then will have to visit a whoisserver of that organization and repeat the whole process.
While there s nothing wrong in doing all these queries, it takes an awful lot oftime. We at Soft Institute wrapped the same thing into a small and package. SILookup queries the right server right automatically, and returns clearly legible,well formatted output. It displays all the vital information and allows you to querymore than one IP address by simply selecting it from a combo box. Thanks to itsuser-friendly, convenient user interface, SI Lookup is much more convenient to usethan the online tools that Unix-age non-profit organizations provide on the Web.
SI Lookup is part of Soft Institute s line of network tools, and integrates wellwith other products, such as SI Ping and SI Trace. You can simply click on an IPaddress or Web name of any host that is pinged or traced in order to get informationabout the owner and location of that host.
SoftInstitute http://www.softinstitute.com/s oft/ releases well-designed, simple touse products that help computer users solve one particular problem. Our products arefree, and typically perform just one task, such as ping, traceroute, whois orlookup, but do it in a convenient manner.
