How do I find information about a website?

[jingo811]

There's a not so well known website that I want to shop from. So I want to enter their web adress into somewhere like System>Admin>[Network Tools]
in order to find as much information about their business and who and where the owner is registered as.

Is there some network tools that can do this in Ubuntu? If so how should I do it?
From the past I've bookmarked a page called Server IP info or something where you just pasted in the web adress to find out the credibility of the site owner. But the site has stopped working :-( so now I have to learn how to do it by local tools.

[taurus]

Move to Cafe.

[potrick]

open a terminal, and type whois followed by the name of the site. So, for example "whois ubuntuforums.org" gives you information about this site. Try it out.

[jingo811]

:-D Linux is way cool. I guess it's true like somebody wrote in the 90s somewhere on the net. Linux is a Porsche compared to Windows's Horse & Carriage. Tnx, whois is a fun command.

[jingo811]

New question.

When I do this in terminal things seem to work.

whois ubuntuforums.org
But when I try it on my own website or some other well known websites like

$ whois gamespy.com
$ whois yahoo.com

Timeout.
It runs for some minute without results and I get a Timeout echo. Why is that?

[dptxp]

If you make a google search on the word whois, you will find quite a few sites that give information on domain names.

[helliewm]

www.dnsstuff.com should help.

Helen

[mdsmedia]

If you make a google search on the word whois, you will find quite a few sites that give information on domain names.
Completely off topic, but dptxp...are they Cavaliers in your avatar? I had a Cavalier in my previous relationship...left him with my ex...but love the breed. Sorry to hijack the thread.

[jingo811]

tnx.

[FranMichaels]

Try this too.

dig www.ubuntuforums.org

tracepath www.google.com

tracepath is really cool, it shows how you connect to that site, all the servers it passes through to get there.
:)

[jingo811]

Cool tnx :)

[dptxp]

Completely off topic, but dptxp...are they Cavaliers in your avatar? I had a Cavalier in my previous relationship...left him with my ex...but love the breed. Sorry to hijack the thread.

they are,
unfortunately they are not mine.:(