Use of Whois

This may be a dumb question, if so apologies.
Can I use the info from a Whois to find the name of the ISP hosting the site?
I wanted to try to locate the ISP of a site that is allegedly building a petition, if genuine, fine, if not then its harvesting email addresses in which case I and fellow email-listers should avoid it.

1. RE: Use of Whois
DJ Net2Infinity Apr-19-02 08:59 AM
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Yes it will for Windows users the best source of WHOIS, is www.samspade.org ..... you can trace back a web page to who owns the domain ( such as .com, .org's and the like). The whois will give you a listing of the administrative contact, the technical contact and a phone number. If you can't figure it out, let me know and I will look it up for you.

2. RE: Use of Whois
Twinhead Apr-20-02 08:44 AM
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Yes you can.
I have the following adress that leeds you to a Whois Server.
http://www.ripe.net/perl/whois
Enter the name or IP or wat you have and see the result.
Victor.