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Whois provides the ownership and registration information for the domain name being investigated. The Results:
This screen tells us that wcom.net is WorldCom, Inc., located in Jackson, MS. The location of the Registrant will become more and more important as states continue to pass anti-spamming legislation. The contact information also gives us the additional information that WorldCom is MCI. The InterNIC contacts shown are not for use in reporting spam. They occasionally may need to be used in the case of a pattern of non-response from an abuse desk, a security problem, or a DoS attack. The other piece of information that may be useful is the Domain server names. In this case, wcom is shown to "own" their servers. In some cases, such as the following screenshot, you can obtain the name of the "host" server, thus the upstream provider.
This screen shows that Tripod's domain is located on Exodus.net's servers. Exodus.net is Tripod's immediate upstream. This can be confirmed with a Tracert.
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