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Whois Lookup🔒 100% local
Identify the right WHOIS server for a domain and get the exact CLI and RDAP commands to query it yourself. Privacy-first, no server uploads, no tracking.
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Whois Lookup works on text, not on the network. Enter a bare domain and it names the registry whois server for that TLD and prints whois and RDAP commands you can run yourself. Paste a block of whois output instead and it extracts the registrar, the created, updated and expiry dates, the status codes, the name servers and the registrant fields, then flags an expiring registration, a missing transfer lock and other risks. No lookup is performed for you.
How to use it
- Enter a domain such as example.com, or paste whois output you already have.
- Press Process.
- For a domain you get commands to run; for pasted output you get the parsed fields, an expiry analysis and a Findings section.
Worked example
example.combecomesDomain: example.com
TLD: .com
Registry whois server: whois.verisign-grs.com
Look it up:
whois example.com # CLI (uses the right server automatically)
whois -h whois.verisign-grs.com example.com # query the registry directly
rdap.org/domain/example.com # modern JSON alternative (RDAP)
Then paste the output back here to decode it.
What to look at first:
• Registrar + Registrar WHOIS Server — who actually controls the name
• Creation / Updated / Expiry Date — an expiring domain is a risk to your brand
• Name Servers — if they are not yours, someone else controls the DNS
• Domain Status — clientHold/redemptionPeriod mean the domain is suspended or lapsing
• Registrant — hidden behind redaction for privacy, which is normal since GDPR
Note: RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) is replacing plain-text whois. It returns JSON and is not rate-limited as aggressively.The tool prints the query commands rather than running them - you paste those into your own shell to get live data.
When to use it
- You are checking a domain and cannot remember which registry serves its TLD.
- Someone sent you a whois dump and you want the expiry date and the status flags pulled out of it.
- Running a brand-protection audit, where the transfer lock and the expiry window matter most.
What it does not do
- It queries nothing. It cannot tell you whether a domain is registered, who owns it or when it expires - that only appears if you run the printed commands and paste the result back.
- Only a short list of TLDs maps to a named whois server. Everything else falls back to whois.iana.org or whois.nic.<second-level-domain>, which is a guess; use rdap.org for those.
- Days-until-expiry and domain age are measured against the moment you press Process, so the same pasted text gives different numbers a month later.
- The extractor only matches the labels in its own field list, so zone-style registry output that uses different keys can come back with few or no fields parsed.