Huge thanks to our Platinum Members Endace and LiveAction,
and our Silver Member Veeam, for supporting the Wireshark Foundation and project.

Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Ownership

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 08:12:19 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

You better learn to use WHOIS.

--------------------------------
    	Registrant:
   	Ethereal
   	15536 College Boulevard
   	Lenexa, KS 66219
   	US

   	Domain Name: ETHEREAL.COM

------------------------------

Domain Name:WIRESHARK.ORG
Created On:16-May-2006 05:33:48 UTC
Last Updated On:16-Jul-2006 03:48:36 UTC
Expiration Date:16-May-2007 05:33:48 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Register.com Inc. (R71-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:8750675af8161383
Registrant Name:John Bruno
Registrant Organization:CACE Technologies, LLC
Registrant Street1:1949 5th Street, suite 103
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Davis
Registrant State/Province:CA
Registrant Postal Code:95616
Registrant Country:US

------------------------------------

For the last part, the TM's are owned by US based entities and the
projects 'assets' (servers etc) are US based so you could say that.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Ostheller, Joel A.  wrote:

> Who owns http://www.ethereal.com/ <http://www.ethereal.com/> ?  Or
> specifically is the owner of http://www.ethereal.com/
> <http://www.ethereal.com/>  based in the USA?
>
> Who owns http://www.wireshark.org <http://www.wireshark.org/> ? (USA Based?)
>
> Would it be fair to say that Ethereal / Wireshark are based in the USA since
> Gerald Combs started the project and is based in the USA?
>
> I ask these questions for security reasons only.
>