WHOIS
Who owns this domain?
Registrar, expiry date, nameservers and every lock the registry has on it — read live from the registry, for any extension.
Type the whole name including the extension. We read the registry directly over RDAP — the protocol that replaced port-43 WHOIS — so what you see is what the registry publishes right now.
Looked yours up and want it here? Moving it in adds a year to whatever time is left on it.
Transfer a domain inIn the record
What a lookup tells you
The registry publishes more than most people realise — and rather less than they expect about the owner.
Registrar and abuse contact
Which company the domain is managed through, its IANA ID, and the address the registry requires them to publish for abuse reports.
The three dates that matter
Registered, last changed and expires — with the countdown to expiry, which is the one people are usually here for.
Status codes, explained
Registries answer in EPP codes like clientTransferProhibited. We print what each one actually means for the domain.
Nameservers and DNSSEC
Where the domain currently points, and whether the zone is signed. The fastest way to tell which host someone is really on.
Status codes
What the registry is telling you
Every domain carries at least one EPP status code. These are the ones you will actually run into.
| Code | What it means for the domain |
|---|---|
| ok / active | Nothing is blocking the domain. It resolves normally. |
| clientTransferProhibited | Registrar lock is on — the usual state for a healthy domain. The owner turns it off to move registrar. |
| clientHold | The registrar has pulled the domain out of the zone. The site stops loading, often over an unpaid invoice or a complaint. |
| pendingTransfer | A move to another registrar is in flight. It completes on its own after five days if nobody acts. |
| redemptionPeriod | It expired and was deleted. The owner can still recover it, but the registry charges a redemption fee on top of the renewal. |
| pendingDelete | Redemption is over. In about five days the name drops and anyone can register it. |
The full list lives at icann.org/epp. Lookups on this page explain each code inline, so you rarely need it.
Your own record
Everything you just read about someone else is public about you too
Registering a domain puts your name, postal address, email and phone into a record anyone can query — which is how the spam starts within hours of a new registration. WHOIS privacy swaps those fields for a forwarding contact, and it is included free on every domain we register rather than sold back to you at renewal.
The exception is .in — the registry does not permit privacy on it, so those details stay public wherever you register.
Already with us
Privacy and locks are toggled per domain from your domain list, along with auth codes.
Expiry is handled by auto-renew 30 days out, with an invoice emailed first — so a lookup never surprises you.
Questions
About WHOIS records
Why is the owner's name missing?
Two different reasons. For .com and .net, Verisign runs a thin registry — it only holds the registrar and the dates, and the owner's details stay with the registrar. Everywhere else, registries redact personal data by default under privacy rules, showing at most an organisation and a country. A missing name is normal, not an error.
Is this the same as WHOIS?
It is the replacement for it. RDAP returns the same registry record as port-43 WHOIS but as structured JSON, with proper internationalisation and a documented format. ICANN required registries and registrars to run it, and it is what this page queries.
How current is the data?
It is read live from the registry each time you search — nothing here is cached between lookups. Registries themselves update on their own schedule, so a change made minutes ago at a registrar may take a short while to show.
It says available — is the name really free?
The registry has no record of it, which is as authoritative as an answer gets. It is not a hold, though. Premium pricing, registry reservations and trademark claims can still get in the way, and someone else can register it a second later.
Can I hide my own details from this?
Yes. WHOIS privacy is included free on every domain we register, on the extensions that permit it — your name, address and phone stay out of the public record. .in is the exception: the registry does not allow privacy on it.
Why did a lookup fail?
A handful of extensions still do not publish RDAP, and some registries rate-limit hard or time out under load. Both come back as an error rather than a wrong answer. Waiting a minute usually fixes it.