You can use Whois to obtain information on names from the Network Information Center.
The Whois tool, like Finger, is an Internet directory service. Whois provides information about who owns an Internet host or domain and who you can contact regarding that host or domain. A Whois request displays a contact name, mailing address, telephone number, and network mailbox for all users and organizations who are registered with one of the official Whois servers, such as the Network Information Center (NIC) database.
Note: The current host server for the Network Information Center (NIC) is rs.internic.net.
To display help information on using the services that the NIC provides through Whois, send a Whois query with no Search String specified and select rs.internic.net for the server.
