There are over 141 million generic TLDs (Top Level Domains) currently registered according to Whois.

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The Club Penguin domain, according to WHOIS information for the site, expired one week ago on June 13.

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Glype.com currently pays for a privacy option on their WHOIS data, however that was just added in April, 2009.

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Now, apparently, the site has been purchased by Whois, an internet brand protection agency that counts Activision as a client.

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Since 1998 Icann, a policy-making group, has controlled domain registration on the Net, logging new sites in an open database called Whois, but the data isn't verified, and even gobbledygook triggers no alarms.

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When one of the registrars sends an addition, deletion or modification to a DNS record, SnapNames receives a copy of that change and maintains its own comprehensive database of domain name registrations called Whois.

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