Free WHOIS lookup
Check whether a domain is really taken, when it expires, and — the check worth doing on your own domain once a year — whose name it is registered in.
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What a WHOIS record shows
- Registrar — the company managing the registration
- Creation and expiry dates — when it was registered and when it must next be renewed
- Nameservers — where the domain currently points
- Status codes — locks and pending actions
- Registrant details — usually redacted these days
Why the owner is usually hidden
WHOIS once printed the registrant’s name, address, phone number and email in full public view, which was a gift to spammers and worse. Privacy regulation and registrar privacy services now redact those details by default. We include WHOIS privacy free on every eligible extension, which protects you the same way — and, fairly, protects everybody else from you.
Reading the status codes
- clientTransferProhibited — transfer lock is on. Normal and protective.
- clientHold — not resolving. Often an unpaid renewal or a failed verification.
- redemptionPeriod — expired, recoverable by the owner only, for a fee.
- pendingDelete — on its way out of the system and shortly available.
If you are waiting for a name to become free, pendingDelete is the signal that matters. The full explanation is in our WHOIS guide.
The check worth doing on your own domain
Look up your own name and read the registrant field. If it shows your web designer or an agency rather than you or your company, that is the most valuable minute you will spend on your domain all year — and the fix is a transfer.