Comments on: Find out WhoIs information about a website using WhoIs client for PC https://www.thewindowsclub.com/karens-whois-download TheWindowsClub covers authentic Windows 11, Windows 10 tips, tutorials, how-to's, features, freeware. Created by Anand Khanse, MVP. Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Anand Khanse https://www.thewindowsclub.com/karens-whois-download#comment-27267 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:20:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=65022#comment-27267 In reply to Gregg L. DesElms.

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]]> By: Gregg L. DesElms https://www.thewindowsclub.com/karens-whois-download#comment-27264 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:13:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=65022#comment-27264 How can Karen’s WHOIS version 2.6.6., updated Aug 30, 2008 — a full year before Windows 7’s release, and a full four years before Windows 8’s release — possibly be “for” either Windows 7 or Windows 8? Moreover, if it’s true that Karen died in April of 2011, a full year-and-a-half before Windows 8’s release, then… er… well… you get the picture.

This website — or at least certain of its writers — just keeps getting more and more sloppy in thinking, writing and recommendations. Just because something happens to work on either Windows 7 or 9 doesn’t mean it was “for” either OS version. Please stop being so reckless.

Moreover, since version 2.6.6 of Karen’s WHOIS utility, all of the registrars have enacted even more blocks to direct access, on any of the common WHOIS ports, to their databases; thereby forcing the user to endure their web WHOIS interfaces, instead. Network Solutions, and GoDaddy are the two who have erected the most effective barriers. Karen’s over four-year-old WHOIS utility, then, could not possibly have anticipated such things; and so, no doubt, falls prey to them.

If you’re going to recommend a WHOIS client, at least bother to make it one that has tried to keep-up. NirSoft’s free WHOIS tools, for example, while not pretty, are nevertheless updated frequently to try to stay one step ahead of the WHOIS databases that will no longer take direct inquiries on the common WHOIS ports; and which, then, refer the inquiry to their web-based interfaces where one must, irrirtatingly, navigate all manner of “Capcha”-type and other validations (to ensure that the inquirer is not a spammer’s robot) before the WHOIS record will finally be given-up.

Karen’s WHOIS client, updated before most of such things were implemented (or at least before most of them were multiple-times updated and improved since Karen’s WHOIS client was last updated), could not possibly have anticipated any of that. And if it’s true that she’s been dead for almost two years, then I’m guessing it’s pretty unlikely that anything will ever be done about it, either.

Due diligence, people. Due diligence! We rely on you for good recommendations and bleeding-edge information. This one, sadly, was neither.

Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA
gregg at greggdeselms dot com

]]> By: Anand Khanse https://www.thewindowsclub.com/karens-whois-download#comment-27261 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=65022#comment-27261 In reply to Seymour Newman.

Oh… Didn’t know that …

There are some great tools here: http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.asp

]]> By: Seymour Newman https://www.thewindowsclub.com/karens-whois-download#comment-27258 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:24:00 +0000 http://www.thewindowsclub.com/?p=65022#comment-27258 Karen Kenworthy passed away on April 25, 2011.

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