Tutorial No 12 Having Fun with Telnet

Hello buddies. Em Back with a funny trick that you would love to do. Basically It's about telnet. Do you remember that recently Network solutions shut down that nifty TELNET thing on whois.intenic.net on the default TELNET port (25), despite many protests. However, there is something fun you can do with TELNET with whois.internic.net or any other cooperating domain name server. At your DOS prompt in Windows or teminal prompt in Linux or Unix, type the following:

TELNET whois.internic.net 43

well it will gives you a blank page. Type in the domain name you want to check and hit enter. Voila! You get something like this:

Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.

Domain Name: TECHBROKER.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: DNS1.WURLD.NET
Name Server: DNS2.WURLD.NET
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 11-dec-2002
Creation Date: 13-feb-1996
Expiration Date: 14-feb-2006

>>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:28:09 EST <<<

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