Whois

Whois definition - hacker
A TCP/IP utility program allowing system administrators to query compatible servers to get detailed information about other Internet users.

See Also: Internet; TCP/IP or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

Internet Highway, LLC. Internet Highway, LLC. Internet Terminology: Whois. [Online, 1999.] Internet Highway, LLC. Website. http://www.ihwy.com/support/ netterms.html.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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