WhoIs Look-up

This is service offered by many websites and domain registrars to allow, or at least partially, identify the owner and operator of a website or the owner of a Domain Name.

If you are concerned about your anonymity you can use these services to check who you appear to be when you are on the Internet.

• Vidalia/Tor on The Technology Muse
• Using the Tor Browser package
• How your individual device can be identified on the Internet
• Looking for yourself on the Internet 

The information that you obtain is only a first order indication of the identity of the visitor to a web resource. Much of the information is withheld and can easily be spoofed.

Some examples of these services:
 These are some of the services that I have used.

• ip-lookup.net