Anyone know how to look up .tv domain names ?

[Carol Haynes]

I have a client who has a TV domain name. The person responsible for the website has gone missing without leaving any details of where it is registered etc.

How do you look up .tv names?

I have tried the usual WHOIS sites but they either come up with nothing at all or just that the name is registered and no details!

The domain is thegeorge.tv

Anyone got and ideas?

[rgdot]

.tv is a verisign company, if verisign doesn't show it then you won't find it elsewhere (unless some site or software knows a trick)

http://www.watch.tv/

[app103]

Sam Spade to the rescue!

Spoiler

03/27/13 14:17:24 whois [email protected]

whois -h whois.geektools.com thegeorge.tv ...
GeekTools Whois Proxy v5.0.5 Ready.

Checking access for 71.172.111.22... ok.



Checking server [tvwhois.verisign-grs.com]



Checking server [whois.tucows.com]

Results:
Registrant:

 The George Inn

 Thoralby

 Leyburn, Yorkshire DL8 3SU

 GB



 Domain name: THEGEORGE.TV





 Administrative Contact:

    Bell, Colin  [email protected]

    Blacklot House

    Hexham, Northumberland NE47 9UR

    GB

    +44.7808293363

 Technical Contact:

    Bell, Colin  [email protected]

    Blacklot House

    Hexham, Northumberland NE47 9UR

    GB

    +44.7808293363





 Registration Service Provider:

    Fasthosts Internet Limited, [email protected]

    +44.8445830777

    +44.8708883760 (fax)

    http://www.Fasthosts.co.uk

    http://facebook.com/fasthostsinternet





 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.

 Record last updated on 26-Aug-2012.

 Record expires on 25-Sep-2013.

 Record created on 25-Sep-2004.



 Registrar Domain Name Help Center:

    http://tucowsdomains.com



 Domain servers in listed order:

    NS1.LIVEDNS.CO.UK   

    NS3.LIVEDNS.CO.UK   

    NS2.LIVEDNS.CO.UK   





 Domain status: clientTransferProhibited

                clientUpdateProhibited



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[rgdot]

Sneaky  

[Carol Haynes]

Thanks that is really useful.

Interestingly the dns servers are not what I thought they were as another domain points to the same website and has different DNS servers.

Maybe there are two copies of the website out there on different servers ??

[app103]

Thanks that is really useful.

-Carol Haynes (March 27, 2013, 01:33 PM)

That came pre-installed on my first computer, by my father. The day he gave it to me, he told me to learn HTML, and if I am ever in doubt as to the safety of a website, use that app to view it in its "Safe Browser", which only displays raw HTML of pages.

Very interesting tool to give a computer newbie. (yeah, I was set up to be a power user, from the start...and he wonders how did I ever get to be such a geek?) 

Interestingly the dns servers are not what I thought they were as another domain points to the same website and has different DNS servers.

Maybe there are two copies of the website out there on different servers ??

-Carol Haynes (March 27, 2013, 01:33 PM)

That, I couldn't tell you. 

[app103]

Took a better look and it turns out that the only thing at thegeorge.tv is a frameset that loads the site located at maxgate.plus.com. There is your reason for the different DNS servers. The real website isn't at thegeorge.tv.

[Carol Haynes]

Thanks April.

[app103]

Thanks April.

-Carol Haynes (March 27, 2013, 03:59 PM)

Any time. 

[Carol Haynes]

Strangely the website is in a frameset on both domains and actually stored on a third domain!!!

How confusing - no wonder they don't get any page ranking!

[app103]

Wow! Talk about convoluted!

[Tinman57]

Sam Spade to the rescue!

-app103 (March 27, 2013, 01:21 PM)

  That's one of the programs I use to track down spammers.  lol

[Carol Haynes]

Hmm - Sam Spade doesn't recognise .TV domain names - or at least it can't look them up.

[app103]

Hmm - Sam Spade doesn't recognise .TV domain names - or at least it can't look them up.

-Carol Haynes (March 28, 2013, 05:19 AM)

Set the dropdown to whois.geektools.com (the one at the bottom) and it will work.

Whenever Magic (the one at the top) doesn't work, try that one, next.

[Carol Haynes]

Thanks - I had already found that. I was initially being a bit dim (not unusual).

Great little tool - shame that Ctrl X, C, V don't work consistently though.

[app103]

It's some very old abandonware. A shame that nobody has bothered to create a replacement that improves on it.  

UPDATE: Look at what I managed to find squirreled away...the source!

According to the license for the source, you can make modifications and distribute the modified version. There is other stuff in there worth reading, first, though.

Thanks - I had already found that. I was initially being a bit dim (not unusual).

Great little tool - shame that Ctrl X, C, V don't work consistently though.

-Carol Haynes (March 28, 2013, 08:40 AM)

So, if we can get a volunteer that is willing to do it, maybe that can be fixed. 

You'll find the source, along with a copy of the license for it, attached.