Who needs WHOIS? Kanye West launches WhoDat instead

File this one under "things we never thought would exist."

If you recall, Kanye West launched his own startup, Donda Media, to much fanfare earlier this year. Taking to Twitter, the American rapper quickly put forth a call for "architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist[s], social media experts, app guys, managers, car designers, clothing designers, DJs, video game designers, publishers, tech guys, lawyers, bankers, nutritionist[s], doctors, scientists [and] teachers" with the intention of creating... something.

Well, at least we know what that something finally is. Today, Mr. West unveiled WhoDat.biz, which iswell, it's a WHOIS information service. Billed as "the Facebook of websites," you can use WhoDat to look up information on the peoplethe "crew," if you willbehind a given website's domain.

You'll be pleased to hear that, not only is the service free, but it works exactly as you'd expect from your typical registrar lookup. Sure, the functionality may be relatively barebones when compared with more established sitesbut in our opinion, no one WHOIS service should have all that power anyhow.

Given that the Twitter and Tumblr accounts are just a few days old, we're going to take the existence of WhoDat with a grain of salt.