- WHOIS stands for "Who is?" and is utility used to look up information on domain names.
- This provides the following information:
- Contact information
- Status of Domain
- Important Dates
- Servers used information etc.
- It is used to find information of a any Domain Name.
- By using this we can find where the domain is hosted and what server is used.
- By giving a request to the Internet Service Providers, we can hide particular details in lookup result.
There are many free websites that will allow you to perform a WHOIS search, some of them are:
- Whois.net
- Whois.icann.org
- tucowsdomains.com
- Whois.com
- namecheap.com etc.
Example lookup tools showing details of domain:
Lookup of stoneprofits.com:
Lookup of google.com:
