Check any domain’s registration record — registrar, creation and expiry dates, name servers, and status codes — pulled from the official RDAP registry data (the modern structured successor to classic WHOIS). Free, instant, and no signup.
How to run a WHOIS lookup
- Enter a domain name (e.g.
example.com). - Press Look up.
- Read the registrar, key dates (with days until expiry), name servers, and status codes.
What you can learn — and what’s hidden
WHOIS answers the practical questions: is this domain taken, when does it expire (useful for catching a renewal you forgot, or timing an acquisition), who manages it (the registrar), and where does it point (name servers). What you generally won’t see is the owner’s personal contact information — that’s redacted on nearly all domains now for privacy, so expect the registrar and technical record rather than an individual’s name.
RDAP status codes, briefly
The status codes are standardized EPP states. clientTransferProhibited is a healthy default
lock; clientHold means the domain won’t resolve; redemptionPeriod and pendingDelete mark
an expired domain’s exit path (and a possible chance to register it soon). If you’re watching a
domain to buy when it drops, those last two are the ones to track.
Private by design
The lookup runs server-side against the public RDAP registry; we don’t store the domains you check. Combine it with the DNS lookup to see where the domain actually points and what is my IP for your own connection.