Tracing website ownership
If you were obtaining information about travelling in South Africa, you might come across this site http://www.springbokatlas.co.za/
From the two domain name extensions you can see that it should be a commercial site (.co) and it is registered as a South African site (.za) You need to access the whois for South Africa. You can do this by searching for it. You can find it here: http://co.za/whois.shtml
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Carry out this whois search. You can see that http://www.springbokatlas.co.za/ is registered by the travel company and at the same address as the travel site in Cape Town. That gives a bit of confidence that it is a real company and not a fraudulent 'front'. |
Of course it is pretty rare that a respected organisation's website would not very explicitly feature its own name.
You may have to either omit the information found on a non-attributable website or give a strong health warning to the client regarding its usefulness.
Let's have a look now at Credibility...
