Is a whois look-up recorded as a page visit?

[burgerman]

I looked through other posts but couldn't find anything on this.

If someone looks up the whois information of a domain name and a thumbnail of the page is presented on the whois info page, is the whois look-up recorded as an actual visit to the web site? I would imagine a whois-look up without a thumbnail view wouldn't be recorded as a visit to the page, but one with a thumbnail view might be recorded because a snapshot picture is taken.

Thanks in advance

 

[hina]

You mean the visit is recorded because a snapshot of that site is being taken [by a bot]?
Then yes. Basically the snapshot bot is "visiting" the site to obtain a screenshot.

But this is not always the case, because the thumbnail might be cached.
So the second time you lookup the WHOIS, no visit is recorded.

 

[savegas]

most snaps are cached so you would not get a visit but the who is site would

 

[MediaHound]

Fabulous.com is giving stats on whois lookups
If your domains are regged at Fabulous, they will tell you how often the whois info is requested.

 

[burgerman]

Thank you for all of your answers.