Sources of Information

Sources of Information

The useful online resources that will be considered for gathering
information about the target company, are:
• Regional Internet Registries (RIR's).
• Whois search.
• EDGAR database.
• Stock Exchange websites.
• Company homepage.
• News sites, newsgroups and search engines.
Regional Internet Registries (RIR’s)
To find out the IP blocks that a company has reserved, one of the three
RIR's can be queried.
• www.arin.net - covering North and South America and sub-
Saharan Africa.
• www.apnic.net - covering Asia Pacific.
• www.ripe.net - covering Europe, the Middle East and parts of
Africa.
Whois Search
The target company will most often have a website on the Internet. The
domain name that is used for the website, e.g. www.iss.net, needs to
have been registered with an ICANN accredited domain name
registrar.
In addition to this, it is likely that the company will have a permanent
Internet connection. This means that they will have registered one or
more IP addresses with a RIR. A Whois search can be performed to
retrieve information from the relevant databases.