Full WHOIS record for any domain: registrar, registration date, expiry date, domain age, days until expiry, name servers, DNSSEC status, and registrant country. Direct queries to authoritative WHOIS servers — no middleman. Thinking of buying or transferring a domain? Check its full history first.
WHOIS is the public registry that tells you who owns a domain, when it was registered, when it expires, which registrar manages it, and which name servers it uses. It is the fastest way to vet a domain before buying it, verify a competitor's website age, check whether an expensive domain is actually about to expire, or spot a phishing site pretending to be a trusted brand. This tool queries authoritative WHOIS servers directly — no middleman database, always fresh data.
The domain's age in years, calculated from its creation date. This is one of the signals Google loosely factors into trust. A 15-year-old domain has more inherent authority than a 6-month-old one, even before content and backlinks are considered. This metric alone explains why aged domains are valuable in the secondary market.
How many days until the current registration period ends. Green (>90 days): safe. Orange (30–90 days): renew soon. Red (<30 days): urgent — you have days, not weeks. Domains occasionally drop and get snapped up by expired-domain buyers, so do not cut it close on anything you want to keep.
The company that currently manages the domain — GoDaddy, Namecheap, Google Domains (now Squarespace), MarkMonitor, etc. For a competitor, the registrar sometimes hints at sophistication: MarkMonitor, CSC, and Network Solutions suggest a large enterprise with domain-portfolio management; GoDaddy or Namecheap suggests a smaller operator.
The EPP status codes (starting with "client" or "server") are technical flags set by the registrar or registry. "clientTransferProhibited" means the domain cannot be transferred without first removing the lock — this is standard and good (it prevents domain hijacking). "pendingDelete" or "redemptionPeriod" means someone let the domain expire and it will drop soon.
Confirms which DNS provider is authoritative for the domain. Useful for competitor research — if your competitor uses Cloudflare and you do not, their site is almost certainly faster than yours. Also useful for spotting phishing: a "legitimate-looking" brand domain with random Russian or Chinese name servers is a red flag.
Shows whether DNSSEC signing is enabled. "signedDelegation" or similar means yes; "unsigned" means no. DNSSEC prevents DNS spoofing attacks and is strongly recommended for financial and ecommerce sites, but it adds complexity and breaks on some providers, so adoption is still under 15% of all domains.
Since GDPR (2018), most WHOIS records hide personal information about individual registrants by default. This is intentional and cannot be bypassed through public WHOIS. The information still exists at the registrar — if you need it for legal reasons (trademark dispute, abuse complaint), you can request disclosure through ICANN's formal process.
Probably not directly. When a domain expires, it enters a 30–45 day "redemption period" during which only the previous owner can restore it. After that, it goes to "pendingDelete" for 5 days, then drops. Many drop-catching services bid for desirable dropping domains the moment they become available — unless you use one (SnapNames, DropCatch, NameJet), a popular domain will be grabbed within seconds of dropping.
Because the domain was registered in 1997 but may have been parked, redirected, or used by a different owner for 27 years before the current owner bought it. Domain age and site age are different things. An old domain does not automatically give a new owner's content ranking power — Google has signals to detect ownership changes and resets trust accordingly.
Not through public WHOIS, which only shows the current state. For historical WHOIS, paid services like DomainTools Iris, WhoisXMLAPI, or the Wayback Machine's WHOIS archives go back 10–20 years. Useful for trademark research and for vetting aged domains before buying them in the aftermarket.
Some TLDs ( especially ccTLDs like .de, .fr, .it, .jp) return minimal info by policy to protect registrant privacy. In these cases you will see basic status and name servers but no dates or registrar info. Nothing is broken — the registry chose to publish less.
Thin registries (like Verisign for .com and .net) store only minimal data (domain and its registrar) — you have to then query the registrar's own WHOIS server for the full record. Thick registries (like .org, .info, most ccTLDs) store all WHOIS data centrally so one query returns everything. Our tool automatically follows the referral chain so you get thick data either way.
Partially. You can check whether suspicious lookalike domains are registered and who the registrar is, which helps with takedown requests. For systematic monitoring (getting notified when "yourbrand-login.com" gets registered), you need a dedicated trademark monitoring service with daily zone-file diffing.
Two likely reasons: you bought privacy protection through your registrar (the record shows the privacy proxy's info, not yours), or the data is legitimately out of date because you never updated the registrant contact after moving or changing companies. Most registrars let you update registrant info in your account — it takes 30 seconds and matters if you ever need to prove ownership.
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