A 'whois' lookup won't help the deeply paranoid: • what about the operator of the whois service you contact? My impression from some quick Googling is that who

A 'whois' lookup won't help the deeply paranoid: • what about the operator of the whois service you contact? My impression from some quick Googling is that whois.networksolutions.com is the default in Ubuntu. If you fear NetworkSolution's web interface, why would you trust their whois interface? • AFAIK, the 'whois' protocol isn't encrypted. An enterprising domainer could be sniffing for promising lookups.