Whoowns or Whoowens?

One of the cPanel scripts I’ve found really useful as of late is the whoowns script that let’s you know which account owns a specific domain. Let me provide a quick scenario.  You have an issue with a domain and you can’t figure out which account in lives in, which could mean it’s an addon domain that wasn’t registered through us, etc. Tracking it down can be a pain. You can figure out what server it is on by using a command like nslookup (nameserver lookeup) that will tell you the hostname and identify the server:

nslookup themissingdomain.tld

The above command will return something like beathap.reclaimhosting.com.  Which means the account is on the Beathap server, but given it is not the primary domain of an account it is not going to appear in the list of all cPanel account. And this is where I would get stuck.

But using whoowns will tell you the account owner, just log in via terminal and use the following command:

/scripts/whoowns themissingdomain.tld
themissi

That will tell you the account that domain lives in which means problem solved. A simple, useful script.

So, when extolling its virtues in Slack I wrote /scripts/whoowens —and soon after Tim had some fun and wrote his own script. So, when you run /script/whoowens on any of Reclaim’s servers you get the following:

That’s geeky and it’s awesome. Hosting humor #4life.

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