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WHOIS Lookup illustration

WHOIS Lookup

Looks up the WHOIS record of a domain: registrar, creation and expiry dates, status codes and nameservers, plus the raw WHOIS response. The query runs on our server because browsers cannot open raw TCP connections to WHOIS servers.

Read the full guide to this tool

A bare domain like example.com — no https:// or path.

Notes

  • WHOIS data for many TLDs is redacted for privacy (GDPR); registrar and dates are usually still visible.
  • Newer TLDs answer over RDAP instead; this tool queries classic WHOIS on TCP port 43.
  • This lookup runs from our server and is rate-limited; the domain you type is the only thing sent.

Explore the idea

This interactive demo needs JavaScript.

Read the full guide for the explanation behind it

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