如果你发现你想要的无人认领的域名在你查到它的第二天突然被一个域名抢占者从你下面注册了，那会非常令人沮丧。带着这种困境，今天的超级用户问答帖子回答了一位好奇的读者的问题。

今天的问答环节是由SuperUser提供的，SuperUser是Stack Exchange的一个分支，是一个由社区驱动的问答网站分组。

问题

超级用户读者William想知道域名占用者是否能检测到人们何时发出WHOIS请求：

I have always used whois domain.com to check for information about domains, but this Stack Exchange question made me stop and think:

How do I check that a domain is available without triggering a grabber?

Can domain squatters actually detect when WHOIS requests are made?

域名占用者能检测到人们何时发出WHOIS请求吗？

答案

超级用户贡献者davidgo为我们提供了答案：

Generally, no. You will notice that in the comments of the Stack Exchange question you linked to, we discovered that it was done through a web interface to WHOIS. The web interface was the “gotcha” element, and it was not the WHOIS query that was pinched, but it was a kind of man-in-the-middle attack where the “web->WHOIS interface” was used to hijack the request. When making a WHOIS request, use a trusted WHOIS client directly, not a web interface, and you should be OK.

I answered “Generally, no.” because it is conceivable that a registrar has been hacked or is in league with the bad guys, and you would not necessarily know about it. This is unlikely for most decent domains though. It is also possible (but again, unlikely) that your ISP is in on it and is sniffing the WHOIS requests through traffic since these requests are not encrypted.

For what it is worth, I have never had a domain name registered out from under me as a result of making a WHOIS request (through the use of a standard Linux WHOIS client).

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