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GARTH O. BRUEN is an Internet policy and security researcher whose work has been published in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Since 2012, Garth Bruen has served as the North American At-Large Chair to the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In 2003, Bruen created KnujOn.com with his late father, Dr. Robert Bruen, to process and investigate internet abuse complaints (SPAM) from consumers. Bruen has trained and advised law enforcement at the federal and local levels on malicious use of the Domain Name System in the way it relates to the WHOIS record system. He has presented multiple times to the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) as well as other cybercrime venues including the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) and the National Center for Justice and the Rule of Law at the University Of Mississippi School Of Law. Bruen also teaches at the Fisher College Criminal Justice School in Boston where he develops new approaches to digital crime.

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Discusses the evolution of WHOIS and how policy changes will affect WHOIS' place in IT today and in the future

This book provides a comprehensive overview of WHOIS. The text begins with an introduction to WHOIS and an in-depth coverage of its forty-year history. Afterward, it examines how to use WHOIS and how WHOIS fits in the overall structure of the Domain Name System (DNS). Other technical topics covered include WHOIS query code and WHOIS server details. The book also discusses current policy developments and implementations, reviews critical policy documents, and explains how they will affect the future of the Internet and WHOIS. Additional resources and content updates will be provided through a supplementary website.

WHOIS Running the Internet: Protocol, Policy, and Privacy:

• Includes an appendix with information on current and authoritative WHOIS services around the world
• Provides illustrations of actual WHOIS records and screenshots of web-based WHOIS query interfaces with instructions for navigating them
• Explains network dependencies and processes related to WHOIS utilizing flowcharts
• Contains advanced coding for programmers

WHOIS Running the Internet: Protocol, Policy, and Privacy is written primarily for internet developers, policy developers, industry professionals in law enforcement, digital forensic investigators, and intellectual property attorneys.