( < who is, "kes on")

olemus
TCP-põhine rakenduskihi protokoll, eeskätt registreerimisandmete (domeeninimede, IP-aadresside, autonoomsüsteemide omanike) saamiseks; teenust annavad päringuvastustena Whois-serverid
= a query and response protocol for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees

ülevaateid
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/2469/whois
https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/216458227-WHOIS-overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS
https://whois.icann.org/en/basics-whois

standardid
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3912

turvalisus
http://www.name.com/blog/business/websites-2/security/2017/02/a-cautionary-tale-on-why-you-need-whois-privacy/
https://www.wired.com/story/weighing-privacy-vs-security-for-the-internets-address-book/
http://www.securityskeptic.com/2014/11/debunking-myths-about-domain-registration-data-whois-accuracy-obligations.html
https://www.first.org/resources/papers/noumea2018/ChampikaW_DNS-Abuse-Handling-FIRST-TC.pdf
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/whoisstudy.pdf