At 11:50 PM 12/18/1999 , you wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>How do I find out in what country/city such sites as *com, *edu, *mit allocated...
>Yes it's too easy to find a place of edu and mit sites (they links to university etc)
>but what about a place of firm or corporation? In what places such portals
>like Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista allocates? Most of them are in US but I doubt that all.


There are a great many sources for this, one of the best is:
    http://www.networksolutions.com/
   Click on the "WHOIS Lookup"

Another good sources is:
    http://www.DomainSearch.com/

If you wish to do a reverse DNS lookup, try this one:
    http://www.osilab.ch/services/dns_e.htm

    Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group

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