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                      SmartWhois® v.5.1
                Copyright © 1998-2013, TamoSoft
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Dec 11, 2013


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Contents
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* About SmartWhois
* System Requirements
* Installing SmartWhois
* Uninstalling SmartWhois
* Ordering
* Contacting Us
* What's New
* Credits


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About SmartWhois
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SmartWhois is a useful network information utility that allows you to find out all available information about an IP address, host name, or domain, including country, state or province, city, name of the network provider, administrator, technical support, and abuse contact information. 

Unlike standard Whois utilities, SmartWhois can find the information about a computer located in any part of the world, intelligently querying the right database and delivering all the related records within a few seconds. The program can retrieve information from more than 60 servers all over the world. 

SmartWhois can save obtained information to an archive file. Users can load this archive the next time the program is launched and add more information to it. This feature allows you to build and maintain your own database of IP addresses and host names. The obtained records may also be saved in one of the several formats: HTML, text, XML, and XLS. Another useful feature in SmartWhois is the ability to load a list of IP addresses or domain names as a text file and process it. 

SmartWhois is capable of caching query results, which reduces the time needed to query an address; if the information is in the cache file it is immediately displayed and no connections to the whois servers are required. 


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System Requirements
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* Pentium III or higher
* Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7, including 64-bit editions
* 128 MB RAM
* 5 MB of free disk space


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Installing SmartWhois
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* Double-click SETUP.EXE to execute it.
* Setup will guide you through the rest of the installation process.


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Uninstalling SmartWhois
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* Choose Uninstall from the SmartWhois program group.

		OR:

* Open the Windows Control Panel.
* Double-click the "Add/Remove programs" icon.
* Search the list for "SmartWhois" and double-click on it.


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Ordering
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Please check our web site for the latest product offerings and prices:

http://www.tamos.com/order/


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Contacting Us
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Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Bug reports? Don't hesitate to contact us.

WWW: http://www.tamos.com
E-mail: support@tamos.com


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What's New
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Version 5.0

* Internationalized domain names (IDN) are now supported. 
* Unicode is now supported throughout the application. Information on domain owners in any language is now displayed correctly.
* IPv6 addresses are now supported.
* The application engine has been rewritten. The new engine supports multithreading, which dramatically speeds up processing of batch queries.
* Added support for the following domain zones: FM, AC, AR, CA, BE, CL, ASIA, TR, SK, LT, LV, HK. Updated data parser for many other domain zones.
* Displays geographic coordinates for domains or IP addresses that have LOC records.
* Automatically detects query types based on the user input.
* New query type: As IP and as domain simultaneously.
* You can perform multiple queries in the query box with a single click, simply enter multiple IP addresses or domains separated by commas.
* Multiple proxy servers are now supported. A random proxy server may be used every time the application connects to a whois server.
* Spam/abuse templates have been improved. Customization and selection of different templates for IP address or Domain abuse reports is now supported.
* The application can query multiple IP addresses assigned to a host.
* Many other improvements.  


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Credits
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This program contains software licensed from Walied Othman.