Wireless all- In-One for Dummies- P10

Wireless all- In-One for Dummies- P10:I still remember when I got my first cordless phone. Suddenly, I didn’thave to run to the kitchen when the phone rang, I just carried the phonewith me. I could make a phone call from wherever I was. Wireless meantfreedom, and this is just a phone that I’m talking about!
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Wireless all- In-One for Dummies- P10 Finding Out if Other People Are Having Problems 249Finding Out if Other People Are Having Problems I’ve suggested earlier that one way to check if a Web site is really down is to ask someone else. If you can’t get to it, and they can’t get to it, chances are the problem lies closer to the Web site than it does for you (for this to work, the other person should really be in a different house). That said, it’s somewhat intrusive to keep on asking someone to check a Web site for you whenever you have a problem. That’s why I really like http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com. This is a Web site where you can type in the name of another Web site, and it’ll happily tell you if it can reach the site or not. Figure 4-11 shows http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com loaded, with www.dummies.com typed into the input field.Figure 4-11:http://downforeveryoneorjustme.comabout tocheck a site. Book IV Chapter 4 Press the Enter key to check your Web site. Figure 4-12 shows that www. dummies.com was up when the Web site checked it, so the problem must be Network Problems Troubleshooting on my end. However, if you check a site that is actually down, you get a different mes- sage shown in Figure 4-13. When using this service, you can get reliable results without having to bother your friends!250 Getting Information About a Web SiteFigure 4-12:Dummies.com is up.Figure 4-13:unpluggedandonline.com isdown.Getting Information About a Web Site Have you ever wanted to contact the owner of a Web site, but couldn’t find out whom to call or e-mail? Maybe you’re trying to get more information about a product, or get in touch with the owner of a Web page. Sometimes it’s hard to get someone on the phone. I’ve got two ways for you to find a name. Getting Information About a Web Site 251 Using a search engine Search engines are huge farms of computers that comb the Web and keep track of what’s out there. When you need to find something, the search engine looks in its index of Web pages and pulls out what you’re looking for. Most people go to a search engine and type in query phrases such as “real estate agent,” which tells the search engine to find all the pages that are about real estate agents. Search engines also support some other ways of querying them that let you be more specific. One of these ways is to use the site operator, which limits your search to a given Web site. You then look within the site for common strings like “con- tact us” or “e-mail.” Most search engines support the site operator, which is simply the word site, followed by a colon (:), then the name of the web site you’re looking for. To look for the phrase “contact us” on the dummies.com Web site, you would search for site:dummies.com contact us, as shown in Figure 4-14.Figure 4-14:A Web Book IVsearch Chapter 4for site:Dummies. Network Problemscom Troubleshootingcontact us. Fortunately for me, the first result was the one I was looking for. Sometimes you have to try some of the other results or try a variant of “contact us,” but if the page exists on the Web site, you’ll find it.252 Getting Information About a Web Site This technique is also good for finding other information. If you were to search for “site:dummies.com wireless all in one,” you would see all the results for this book on the Dummies.com Web site. Checking the domain registration If you were to get a domain name of your own (as opposed to using space on someone else’s), then you’d have to register the name. The registration process requires that you give some contact information, which is stored in a public registry. People can query this registry, called the Whois database, in order to find out how to contact the owner of a domain. Depending on the company that owns the domain, the name you get back might be a generic phone number or it might be the owner of the company. Most larger companies will register as a generic entity like “Name registrations,” but the e-mail address and phone number will go to a real person. This prevents the company from having to update all their domains when people change jobs. That’s no problem, ...