hotwhois is a convenient and easy-to-use application for obtaining all available information on a given ip address or domain name. you can retrieve information about the organization or the isp that owns the ip address, including the country, state, city, address, contact phone numbers and e-mails. it can determine name and version of the remote web server. it can also ping remote hosts to check their availability. with hotwhois you can make whois queries even if the registrar, supporting a particular domain, doesn't have the whois server itself. queries can go through the web interface. also, it is not a problem if a network is connected to the web using socks 4 or 5 proxy servers. they are supported, so the tool processes whois requests even with this kind of proxy. features: * easy ip whois lookup and domain whois lookup on 120 domain zones for selected hosts. * ability to perform whois query via web interface if the registrar who supports the particular domain hasn't a whois server. * support for socks 4 and 5 proxy servers. * ability to determine name and version of the remote web server. * ability to ping remote hosts. * tight integration with internet explorer 5.0 and above. pressing the hotwhois button in the internet explorer toolbar starts the program and runs a whois lookup to the current address (the one displayed in the internet explorer address bar). * printing the lookup results, copying them to the clipboard or saving as a file. * multilingual interface. now supported english, french, german, russian, catalan, spanish. * works with all versions of windows including windows xp!