The “historical” website that I chose to look up on whois.com is Reddit.  Why?  Because it’s basically an archive.  Why?  Because it contains dozend of links to primary and secondary resources on the section of the site TodayILearned (TIL).  For example, today, on Reddit, I learned that there was a nonviolent, student resistance group in Germany called the White Rose who opposed the Third Reich during WWII.  At least seven of the members were executed by Hitler’s regime.  Now, this is a historical fact that I would have never known without my daily browsing of Reddit.

As to who owns Reddit.com– it looks like the registrar is Gandi SAS, or Gandi.net.  When I visited this site, here is what I found:

GANDI.net was one of the first domain name registrars approved by ICANN for .COM, .NET,.ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, .NAME, .BE, .FR, .EU domains in France. It now offers over 100 domain extensions and continues to add to this list on a regular basis. Gandi considers itself to be an ethical domain name registrar in an industry that has some ‘grey’ practices. It values the customers rights and privacy above all else and seeks to defend these wherever possible.

GANDI SAS was founded in 1999 by three individuals who were highly regarded in the French internet world (Pierre Beyssac, Laurent Chemla, Valentin Lacambre). In 2005, it was bought by an experienced European management team within the same field, in order to create an alternative and independent line of Internet services based around domain names. Gandi has offices in Paris (France), Baltimore (USA) and Vancouver (Canada).

Seeeeeeems like Reddit is a French site.  Cool! :]  go, Français!

Well. Seemed.  ;]  Until you scroll down and see that it’s based in San Francisco.  Ah well.  It’s French at heart.