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WHOIS Lookup — See who owns a domain

Type a domain and we'll ask its registry directly over RDAP, the standard that replaced WHOIS. You get the registrar, the registration and expiry dates, the nameservers it's pointing at, and any locks on the record — no ads, no signup, no scraped guesswork.

Paste a full URL if it's easier — we'll reduce it to the registered domain. .np domains aren't supported, as Nepal's registry publishes no RDAP service.

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01

Whether it's actually taken

No registry record means the name was unregistered at the moment you searched — so it's yours to register.

02

When it expires

The expiry date tells you when a name you want might drop, and reminds you when your own is due.

03

Where it's hosted from

Nameservers reveal which DNS provider or host is in charge, which is what you need before a migration.

Questions about WHOIS and RDAP

What is a WHOIS lookup?
A WHOIS lookup asks the registry that runs a domain extension what it knows about a specific domain — which registrar it was bought through, when it was registered, when it expires, which nameservers it points at, and whether any locks are on it. It is the public record of a domain's registration, and every registry is required to publish it.
What is RDAP, and why do you use it instead of WHOIS?
RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) is the IETF-standardised replacement for the old port-43 WHOIS protocol. WHOIS returned free-form text that differed from registry to registry, so it had to be scraped and guessed at. RDAP returns structured JSON with defined fields, so dates, nameservers and status codes are exact rather than parsed out of prose. ICANN requires gTLD registries and registrars to run RDAP, and WHOIS itself was formally retired in 2025.
Why is the owner's name and email hidden?
Since GDPR came into force, nearly every registry and registrar redacts registrant names, emails, phone numbers and addresses from public records. What you see instead is the registrar and, sometimes, the registrant's country. To reach the owner, use the registrar's abuse or contact-forwarding channel rather than expecting an address in the record. This tool shows the country when a registry still publishes it.
Can I look up .np and .com.np domains here?
Not yet. Nepal's registry, run by Mercantile Communications, does not publish an RDAP service for .np or .com.np, so there is no machine-readable record for this tool to query. Use the registry's own web lookup for those extensions. Every gTLD — .com, .net, .org, .info, .xyz, .online and hundreds more — works here.
What do status codes like clientTransferProhibited mean?
Those are EPP status codes, and most of them are good news. clientTransferProhibited means your registrar has a transfer lock switched on, which stops someone moving the domain away without your consent — it is the default on a healthy domain. Codes worth acting on are clientHold and serverHold, which mean the domain has been pulled from DNS, and redemptionPeriod or pendingDelete, which mean it expired and is on its way to being released.

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