About three years ago, when I was relatively new to the Internet, I
almost accidently surfed to a site--it may have been a domain name
registration site--that offered an online tool to find the ownership
of and traffic level to any active URL on the Web.  This tool was free
and returned detailed information.  Although I thought it was a very
useful tool, I had no practical use for it at that time and did not
memorize or record the URL. In short, I am  unable to find that Web
site now that I have a genuine need for such valuable information.
This was not the normal information available from the Whois data
base. Can anyone help me?

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Request for Question Clarification by jeffyen-ga on 29 Aug 2002 21:51 PDT

Hi ce1992. I'd like to know what sort of detailed information you saw
when you went to the website. Were you able to put in any url, say,
cnn.com, and it could tell you how many people visited the website and
give you other demographics etc. information regarding people who
visited the website?

Hi again,

Thanks for accepting my answer of http://alexa.com (in the comments below).

No search strategy - it's a site I used to use quite a lot.

Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga

Could you be thinking of Alexa.com? Internet Explorer still uses it -
click on the "Related" button.

There is also 7Metasearch - on this results page, click on the red
words "Details - phone" and a pop-up gives lots of details for the
site. Their ranking data isn't too accurate.
http://www.7metasearch.com/scripts/search/7metasearch/results.asp?q=2012

To Robertskelton-ga:  I am ecstatic.  The search engine alexa.com is
the site I was looking for, although I couldn't bring that
memory to the surface.  How do I go about seeing to it that you are
paid.  And thank you very much.

I also thought that you were thinking of Alexa, but the question was
locked at the time so that I couldn't comment :-)

There are several other sites that provide information about a
website, and I've collected them all at
http://www.faganfinder.com/misc/site.shtml . You can find information
about a URL by adding ?http://www.someaddress.com/ .