The Whois system was designed to let people find out who owns a particular domain. This Whois information is public information unless a domain owner has a special privacy service from their registrar. There are many Whois services which offer free Whois lookups. Wikipedia has a great article about Whois here.

edit Related Domains

• ICANN.org (official ICANN site)
• ICANNwiki.org (independent wiki)
• DomainTools.com (popular Whois service)
• Alexa.com (traffic rankings and Whois information)

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• 2007.10.29 Good article on what's happening at ICANN re Whois