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: Are Whois websites trustable? A good domain name is counted a precious property. There are some websites which offer the WHOIS service to check the availability of a domain name, like who.is,

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A good domain name is counted a precious property. There are some websites which offer the WHOIS service to check the availability of a domain name, like who.is, or whois.com, ...

Are they just offer this service and don't care to the entered names or could it be possible that they probe the names to get inspired by them and register some domains for themselves?

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@Alves908

WHOIS is actually a protocol. Various websites and tools can use this particular protocol to find out about the availability of a domain name. And yes, most of these websites are trustworthy, simply because they don't have much to gain from you. Why would they need your input to inspire them about the importance of a particular domain name? A vast number of websites and software applications (in general) have the ability to look up WHOIS information. What's to stop them from programatically looking up domain names based on common dictionary words and popular phrases? Besides: Most of the valuable keyword-based domain names are taken. Valuable domain names relating to new words, names and key phrases are quickly sold. I think you're being overly-cautious :)

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