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Whois IP/Snapshot Website Locked

That’s multitude of information captured in that sentence Whois IP/Snapshot Website Locked. So I will take one step at a time and explain you what all these things are.

This got posted to a lot of folks Facebook account and people are wondering what it is. Although I am not sure how a certain app is posting this on users account but below is what the break up of this info means.

Whois - You can use this tool to lookup website information like who has registered the domain etc. It does a lookup on the URL that is owned by somebody.

Website Locked – What this could mean is that the website is blocked for access. Generally schools and workplaces ban certain popular websites like Myspace, Facebook, Youtube etc because such websites do not serve any potential benefit besides the time pass and fun aspect. Most employers do not like this.

If you have any questions related to the concepts I have explained above, ask below and I will try to answer them.

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